The role of health risk factors and disease on worker productivity
The role of health risk factors and disease on worker productivity
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DOI：
10.1097/00043764-199910000-00007
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发表时间：
1999-10-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Edington, DW
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作者：
Burton, WN;Conti, DJ;Edington, DW
雇员健康问题的成本通常由雇主以直接医疗保健成本（如医疗计划索赔）来衡量。虽然人们已经认识到，雇员的健康问题也会给雇主带来间接成本，但对这些成本的衡量却少得多。这里介绍的研究包括员工工作时生产力实际下降的衡量标准，以及缺勤和残疾的衡量标准，这三个衡量标准结合起来产生了工人生产力指数（WPI）。564电话客户服务代理的工作绩效指数与员工的健康风险的数量和类型，作为衡量的健康风险评估。此外，还检查了同一员工人群中不同疾病状态的WPI。随着健康风险的增加，员工的生产力下降。健康风险的性质也可能对减少的模式产生不同的影响。最后，疾病状态也与不同的生产力下降模式有关。
The costs attributed to employee health problems are usually measured by employers in terms of direct health care costs, such as medical plan claims. Although it has been understood that employee health problems also produce indirect costs for employers, their measurement has been far less frequent, At best, studies have recorded one component of indirect health costs: the time lost to employee absenteeism and disability. The study presented here includes a measure of the actual decrease in the productivity of employees while they are on the job, in addition to measures of absenteeism and disability, These three measurements were combined to produce a Worker Productivity Index (WPI). The WPIs of 564 telephone customer-service agents were correlated with the employees' number and type of health risks, as measured by a Health Risk Appraisal. Additionally, the WPI was also examined across different disease states in the same population of employees. As the number of health risks increased an employee's productivity decreased. The nature of the health risk, may also differentially affect the pattern of the decrease. Finally, disease states were also associated with different patterns of productivity reduction.