Parry Thomas, Sherman Bruce
Benefits Q. 2015;31(1):32-8.
Although employers can shift the cost/risk of health care to external claims payers through insurance, they can never shift the broader impacts of health-related well-being, lost time and performance outside of their organizational boundaries. This article traces the evolution of employer strategies to manage health, addressing what research tells us about the broader impacts of health and well-being on outcomes and establishing a broader framework for connecting health to business performance. The challenge that employers now face is to integrate a much broader set of factors to meet the goals of improved workforce health, well-being and business performance. Regardless of how employers decide to provide health benefits, these broader issues are a business imperative for every employer in the 21st century.
尽管雇主可以通过保险将医疗保健的成本/风险转嫁给外部理赔支付方，但他们永远无法将与健康相关的福祉、工作时间损失以及组织边界之外的工作表现等更广泛的影响转移出去。本文追溯了雇主管理健康策略的演变，阐述了关于健康和福祉对结果的更广泛影响的研究，并建立了一个将健康与企业绩效联系起来的更广泛框架。雇主目前面临的挑战是整合一系列更广泛的因素，以实现改善员工健康、福祉和企业绩效的目标。无论雇主决定如何提供健康福利，这些更广泛的问题都是21世纪每个雇主的商业要务。
