Reducing the Health Toll from U.S. Workplace Stress

Author:

Goh Joel1,Pfeffer Jeffrey2,Zenios Stefanos A.2

Affiliation:

1. National University of Singapore and Harvard University.

2. Stanford University.

Abstract

Many studies have documented that workplace stress can harm health. But in an open, competitive economy, can these harmful effects realistically be prevented? To find out, we used publicly available data to compare U.S. and European estimates of health care costs and mortality from workplace stress. We found that if the United States had workplace policies that were comparable to those of a European country of similar wealth, it would spend approximately $40 billion less on health care costs related to potentially preventable workplace stress than it spends now. These results suggest that focusing policy interventions on the workplace could help address soaring U.S. health care costs.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Behavioral Neuroscience,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Human-Computer Interaction,Development

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