Health and Productivity Management: Investing in National Health and Competitiveness
Healthy Lifestyle Forum | Moscow, Russia | 9 December 2013
Sean Sullivan, JD President & CEOInstitute for Health and Productivity Management
Productivity – the Driving Force in Economic Progress
• Productivity drives the wealth, competitiveness and living standards of nations
• Keys to national, corporate and individual productivity are:– investment in developing a nation’s key resources– allocation of those resources to their most
productive uses– effective management of those resources to
produce competitive goods and services most efficiently
Evolution of Productivity and Economic Progress
• Economics historically identifies three kinds of resources behind productivity– Land/Labor/Capital
• Land and Labor were most important in the Agricultural Era
• Industrial Era made Capital the most important resource for productivity– Financial capital to develop large industrial enterprises– Physical capital of factories and machinery to produce
goods – Mass production made individual labor less valuable
Evolution of Productivity (Con’t)
• Now the leading nations’ economies are moving into the “Post-Industrial” Era – or what Peter Drucker called the age of the “knowledge worker”– Financial and physical capital remain important (and so
does land in rich natural resource economies like Russia) – But the value of financial and physical capital is in the
form of new and improved technologies – of “innovation”
• Development and application of new technologies depends heavily on relatively scarce, highly skilled “labor” – now seen as human capital
New Era of Human Capital
• Economists have identified the components of human capital value – Knowledge and skills – “intellectual” capital– Tools – physical capital to work with– Motivation – “psychological” capital
• But an additional component that affects the productivity of all the others has been neglected until now -- and that is HEALTH
• People can be highly trained and skilled, equipped with the best tools, and strongly motivated – But unless they are healthy – or well – they will not be
productive
Health is Wealth – the New Economic Imperative
• Management of human capital “assets” – including health – is a key to business and national economic performance – Training and education, new technologies and financial
incentives and rewards remain important– But investing in better worker health is the new competitive
advantage for companies and nations• Health and Productivity Management – HPM – is the
new model for systematically improving worker health to improve productivity– New tools enable us to measure the return on investments
in health
HPM – the New Economic Value Model for Health
• Management requires measurement – “you cannot manage what you cannot measure” (Peter Drucker)
• Health and Productivity Management includes:– Collecting data on all health-related costs – medical
spending as well as the economic cost of lost productivity– Targeting health investments on the most important
health issues • Reducing current costs of illness with disease management
• Controlling future costs by avoiding them with workplace wellness and prevention programs
Worker Health is an Asset – Not a Cost
• Issue is not the cost of keeping workers healthy – real issue is the cost of having unhealthy workers
• This cost is 2 to 3 times greater than the cost of medical care – in lost work time, but even more in the cost of “presenteeism” or lost productivity while at work – Physically/Mentally/Socially
• Landmark study from The Dow Chemical Company shows this cost of presenteeism to be enormous –2/3 of the total cost burden of chronic disease and about 7 percent of total labor costs
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Medical, absence and work impairment costs associated with self-reported “primary” chronic conditions among Dow employees
TOTAL COST OF CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS AT DOW CHEMICAL
Source: J. Collins, C. Baase, et al.. Journal for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 6/05
The Impact of Lifestyle on Health
• Majority of chronic disease – or NCDs as defined by the World Health Organization – is preventable through healthy lifestyle behavior change– Five major behaviors affecting health
• Physical activity • Nutrition • Sleep • Smoking • Substance abuse
• #1 health issue related to lifestyle behaviors globally is the “metabolic syndrome” of risk factors connected with Type 2 Diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease
Worksite Wellness and the Metabolic Syndrome
• Worksite wellness programs have shown success in reducing the health risk factors of the metabolic syndrome – preventing future disease and reducing the lost productivity cost of presenteeism
• Institute for Health and Productivity Management has conducted multiple pilot programs that have done this for populations of workers by focusing on– Physical activity– Nutrition– Motivation– Peer support
Risk Factor ReductionCity of Phoenix
• Eliminated risk factors– 65% (212 / 328)– 2.08 risk factors eliminated per participant
• Improved risk factors (not to goal)– 32% (107 / 328)– 3.84 risk factors improved but not to goal
• Eliminating 2 risk factors saves between $2300 and $2800 in medical costs annually
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Productivity Gain – THE CITY OF PHOENIXAll valid participants who took both WLQ surveys, regardless of risk factor changes
24.1%
13.3%
25.9%
28.2%
6.8%
18.6%
10.5% 11.1%
14.1%
3.7%
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5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
Time Scale Physical Scale Output Scale Mental-InterpersonalScale
WLQ Productivity LossScore
Before MHI After MHI
HPM – Model for National Health and Competitiveness
• Worker health is a key component of human capital for national growth and competitiveness in the global economy
• Health as human capital has an economic asset value and is a driver of productivity gains in the work force
• Health can be systematically improved at the work site – and prevent future chronic disease
• Proven model for doing this is Health and Productivity Management – a national strategy for health, economic growth and competitiveness
The HPM Value Chain™
Design benefitsand programs
To provide incentives
To change behavior
To reduce risksTo improvehealth
Which will impact medical costs and
disabilities
And improvefunctionality
Which translatesinto enhanced
workerproductivity
OUTCOMEImproved corporate
financial performance
Measurement
Sean Sullivan, JDPresident & CEOInstitute for Health and Productivity Management
P: (00)480-305-2100E: [email protected]
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