Assessing the national productivity impacts of chronic ill health

该项目旨在通过设计一种新的综合国家指标来解决健康和生产力研究中最大的差距之一，该指标将对因慢性疾病造成的生产力损失进行排名。该项目汇集了税收/转移模型、健康模型和流行病学模型专家，开发了一个高度创新的微观模拟模型：Health&WorkMOD，然后量化与健康相关的生产力损失的成本。拟议的模型在国际上尚属首次，将成为全面模拟疾病成本影响和模拟与健康和生产力有关的政策选择的有力工具。这将为政府提供关键政策问题的答案，并具有潜在的重大经济效益。

The project aims to address one of the biggest gaps in health and productivity research by designing a novel composite national metric that will rank lost productivity due to chronic illness The project brings together tax/transfer modelling, health modelling and epidemiological modelling specialists to develop a highly innovative microsimulation model: Health&WorkMOD to then quantify the costs of health-related productivity loss. The proposed model, an international first, will be a powerful tool to comprehensively model the cost impacts of illness and simulate policy options related to health and productivity. This will provide answers to critical policy questions for government with potential significant economic benefits.