Health and Work Productivity: Making the Business Case for Quality Health Care

A recent study of productivity in the workplace exposed 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 worker 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-do treatment of workers by the side of with an informed allocation strategy can yield 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 expenditure of productivity loss, concrete suggestions for future research developments in the area, and the implications of this research for broadcast policy.