On the economic impacts of medical treatments: work productivity and functioning
On the economic impacts of medical treatments: work productivity and functioning
Author
Berndt, Ernst
Abstract
In this essay I provide a wide-ranging overview of recent research linking medical treatments to productivity and ability to function. The studies that examine how do illness and medical treatments affect absenteeism, at-work productivity (“presenteeism”) and ability to function vary in the type of data employed, and in particular, on whether ability to function is measured subjectively (by “asking”) or objectively (by “counting”). El objetivo de este documento es brindar un enfoque global de tres recientes
estudios que examinan el impacto económico de las enfermedades y los
tratamientos médicos en la productividad y rendimiento laboral. Los estudios
analizados difieren en el tipo de información que emplean y, en particular, en
la manera en la cual miden la productividad laboral del trabajador:
subjetivamente (“preguntando”) u objetivamente (“contando”).