Thursday, May 26, 2005

Emory study finds health care use, work productivity linked to health levels

Emory study finds health care use, work productivity linked to health levels: "Emory study finds health care use, work productivity linked to health leve"

. . . Emory study finds health care use, work productivity linked to health levels: "Using national survey data, Emory sociologist Corey Keyes examined the prevalence of mental and physical health issues among adults between the ages of 25 and 74, and how varying levels of health correlated to healthcare use and work productivity. Keyes found striking differences in productivity and healthcare visits among the healthiest and unhealthiest of those surveyed, and less than optimum levels of productivity among the incompletely healthy.

The results of the study demonstrate that health care providers and public health officials need to focus on the promotion of wellness to improve quality of life and increase productivity, and not just on the prevention and treatment of illness and injury, says Keyes, an associate professor of sociology and public health.

'We need to look at health as more than just the absence of illness and recognize that there are varying levels of health. Ultimately, we have it backwards -- we focus first on disease and illness instead of good health,' Keyes says. 'Rather than providing treatment only when the patient is broken, we need to promote physical and mental health at the same time we prevent the onset and course of disease. " . . .

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