An assessment of health and work productivity measurement in employer settings

Abstract

An increasing literature has focused upon investigating the relationships between an employee's health status and costs incurred by employers, including the specific impact of health status on productivity-related costs. Given the escalating costs of healthcare globally, attention has been drawn to better understand these associations using various analytic approaches. In the workplace setting, employers have also become more engaged in assessing the health of their employees and in improving the types of care that are being delivered. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to present the concepts of absenteeism and presenteeism and to describe the general approaches used to assess health-related work productivity.