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- Title
In Absence of Absenteeism: Some Thoughts on Productivity Costs in Economic Evaluations in a Post-corona Era.
- Authors
Brouwer, Werner; Huls, Samare; Sajjad, Ayesha; Kanters, Tim; Roijen, Leona Hakkaart-van; van Exel, Job
- Abstract
Concluding If the corona crisis results in structural changes to the location of work, from a formal workplace - more often - to home, a rethink of methods for capturing productivity costs in economic evaluations of health interventions will be required, potentially accounting for the increasing relation between paid and unpaid work. This would also imply that comparing to or extrapolating productivity costs from pre-corona studies may be inaccurate since the level of ill-health or productivity for calling in sick post-corona would have to be the same as for being absent from work pre-corona. As paid and unpaid work become more intertwined and measuring productivity in paid work from home more common, the step towards including productivity in unpaid work in economic evaluations becomes smaller and more relevant. It has been highlighted before that reduced productivity without absenteeism and before or after absenteeism is common and that the associated productivity costs may be substantial [[21]].
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; MEDICAL economics; ECONOMIC aspects of diseases; TELECOMMUTING
- Publication
PharmacoEconomics, 2022, Vol 40, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1170-7690
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s40273-021-01117-3