Affiliations: Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center and Cancer
Center, Tucson, AZ, USA | Institute for Health and Productivity Management,
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Note: [] Corresponding author: Grant H. Skrepnek, Ph.D., The University
of Arizona, Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research, 1295
North Martin Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: skrepnek@pharmacy.arizona.edu
Abstract: An increasing literature has focused upon investigating the
relationships between an employee's health status and costs incurred by
employers, including the specific impact of health status on
productivity-related costs. Given the escalating costs of healthcare globally,
attention has been drawn to better understand these associations using various
analytic approaches. In the workplace setting, employers have also become more
engaged in assessing the health of their employees and in improving the types
of care that are being delivered. In this context, the purpose of this paper is
to present the concepts of absenteeism and presenteeism and to describe the
general approaches used to assess health-related work productivity.
Keywords: Work productivity, presenteeism, retrospective databases, self-report, simulation
