Health and Work Productivity

Making the Business Case for Quality Health Care

Ronald C Kessler editor Paul E Stang editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:11th Apr '06

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Health and Work Productivity cover

A recent study of productivity in the workplace revealed that workers spend on average eight percent of their workday doing nothing. This statistic takes on greater significance when we find that health problems impact employee productivity loss by an even greater percentage. In light of this discovery, a group of leading experts from the emerging field of health and productivity research argues that the expansion of health care benefits represents a substantial investment opportunity for employers. "Health and Work Productivity" presents state-of-the-art health and productivity research that suggests interventions aimed at prevention, early detection, and best-practice treatment of workers along with an informed allocation strategy can produce significant cost-benefits for employers. Contributors cover all the major aspects of this new area of research: approaches to studying the effects of health on productivity, ways for employers to estimate the costs of productivity loss, concrete suggestions for future research developments in the area, and the implications of this research for public policy.

"In this original work, contributors provide motivation for a change in perspective from the provision of medical care as a benefit only to one that is a tool for investing in worker productivity. They then provide the substantial research necessary to set up such an investment and monitoring system." - Jody Sindelar, School of Public Health, Yale University"

ISBN: 9780226432120

Dimensions: 23mm x 16mm x 3mm

Weight: 595g

248 pages