Health and Work Productivity: Making the Business Case for Quality Health CareRonald C. Kessler, Paul E. Stang 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. |
Contents
1 Intersecting Issues in the Evaluation of Health and Work Productivity | 1 |
Part One | 27 |
2 Linking Administrative Claim Data with Archival Productivity Measures to Inform Employer DecisionMaking | 29 |
3 Simulation for Measurement of Occupational Performance | 54 |
4 Measuring HealthRelated Work Productivity with SelfReports | 66 |
5 Use of the Experience Sampling Method in Studies of Illness and Work Performance | 88 |
6 Estimating the Dollar Costs of Productivity Losses Due to Illness | 120 |
7 LaborMarket Consequences of Health Impairments | 142 |
10 The Role of Health Plans in Linking Quality of Care to Labor Outcomes | 207 |
11 The Pharmaceutical Industry and Productivity Research | 224 |
12 A Regulatory Perspective on Productivity Claims | 242 |
13 Investing in Health to Promote Human Capital in Developing Countries | 253 |
Part Three | 269 |
14 Future Directions in Health and Work Productivity Research | 271 |
Contributors | 287 |
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Part Two | 163 |
8 Overcoming Barriers to Managing Health and Productivity in the Workplace | 165 |
9 Investing in Health to Boost Employee Productivity | 185 |
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