Tobacco as a priority for managed care
Best practices for comprehensive tobacco control programs: opportunities for managed care organisations
Michael P Eriksen
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Chamblee GA
30341, USA; mpe0@cdc.gov
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I shall begin with an overview of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health and the evolution of its important relationship with the managed care world over the past few years.
Dr Jeffrey Koplan, previously head of the National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, in which the Office on Smoking
and Health is housed, became the new director of the CDC in October
1998. Two of his priorities for the agency are strengthening the
science base for public health action and collaborating with health
care partners for prevention. A primary reason for my presence at this
meeting was to reinforce this acknowledgment that we cannot accomplish
our public health objectives without working closely with our health
care partners; managed care organisations (MCOs) are critical in this
regard. And one of the first collaborations between the CDC and MCOs
was on reducing tobacco
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