This paper provides an overview of and perspective on the concept of well-being at work.
Well-being is a term that reflects not only on one's health but satisfaction with work and life …

This report presents an overview of methodological issues in estimating the indirect
workplace costs of illness from data obtained in employee surveys using the World Health …

Evidence about the total cost of health, absence, short-term disability, and productivity
losses was synthesized for 10 health conditions. Cost estimates from a large …

This report describes the World Health Organization Health and Work Performance
Questionnaire (HPQ), a self-report instrument designed to estimate the workplace costs of …

Background Productivity losses often contribute significantly to the total costs in economic
evaluations adopting a societal perspective. Currently, no consensus exists on the …

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and estimate total
costs for chronic health conditions in the US workforce for the Dow Chemical Company …

A multi-employer database that links medical, prescription drug, absence, and short term
disability data at the patient level was analyzed to uncover the most costly physical and …

A ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard
(author of Happiness) and David M. Clark. Britain has become a world leader in providing …

Despite the growing worldwide burden of dengue fever, the global economic impact of
dengue illness is poorly documented. Using a common protocol, we present the first …

Soeren Mattke, MD, DSc; Aruna Balakrishnan, BS; Giacomo Bergamo, BS; and Sydne J.
Newberry, PhD Background: Annual US health-related productivity losses are estimated to …