Workplace Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings
Workplace Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0626
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发表时间：
2010-02-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Song, Zirui
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作者：
Baicker, Katherine;Cutler, David;Song, Zirui
随着医疗支出的飙升，人们对工作场所疾病预防和健康计划的兴趣越来越大，以改善健康和降低成本。在对与这些计划相关的成本和节省的文献进行的关键荟萃分析中，我们发现，每花费一美元在健康计划上，医疗成本下降约3.27美元，每花费一美元，缺勤成本下降约2.73美元。虽然需要进一步探索工作机制和研究结果的更广泛适用性，但这种投资回报表明，更广泛地采用这些方案可能有利于预算和生产力以及健康结果。
Amid soaring health spending, there is growing interest in workplace disease prevention and wellness programs to improve health and lower costs. In a critical meta-analysis of the literature on costs and savings associated with such programs, we found that medical costs fall by about $3.27 for every dollar spent on wellness programs and that absenteeism costs fall by about $2.73 for every dollar spent. Although further exploration of the mechanisms at work and broader applicability of the findings is needed, this return on investment suggests that the wider adoption of such programs could prove beneficial for budgets and productivity as well as health outcomes.