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Results from the first in a series of studies among multiple employers aims to quantify the true value of employee health. The study, published in the July issue of Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM), found that health-related productivity costs were four times greater than medical and pharmacy costs, and the costliest conditions may not be the ones that employers are focusing on. The authors suggest investing in healthy employees can yield substantial economic benefits for companies.

Related materials:

• Press release: Poor Employee Health Costlier Than Employers Think
• Slide presentation: Health and Productivity as a Business Strategy - A Multi-employer Research Study.
• Article: "Are We Underestimating the Costs of Poor Employee Health?" published in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Compensation Benefits.

• The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) Health and Productivity Management (HPM) Center, located at www.acoem.org/HealthandProductivity.aspx
• Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI) Health & Productivity Snapshot, located at www.benefitsintelligence.org