THE OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM - A NEW PARADIGM FOR OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH SERVICES

For a variety of reasons, occupational health services at Army Materie l Command installations became severely strained during the 1980s. The Occupational Health Partnership Program, developed to improve this su pport, describes control, responsibility, and cost sharing between Arm y Materiel Command and Army Medical Command. This innovative approach is finding new solutions to challenging problems, The authors describe the history, principles, status, and possible future of the partnersh ip program.