The introduction of biologics has changed treatment patterns as well as costs in patients with psoriasis. This study was performed to estimate direct and indirect costs of the psoriasis population in Sweden, and to analyse changes in costs between 2006 and 2009. The study population was identified in national registers. Direct costs included health care visits with primary psoriasis diagnoses i...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of trends in smoking and obesity prevalence on productivity loss among petrochemical employees from 1980 to 2009. METHODS Smoking and obesity informations were collected during company physical examinations. Productivity loss was calculated as differential workdays lost between smokers and non-smokers, and obese and normal-weight employees. RESULTS During 19...

The work productivity loss due to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) has become subject of interest because of its socioeconomic impact. In addition to physical limitations, other variables seem to affect the productivity of those patients, who often withdraw early from the labor force. This review was aimed at identifying articles published in English, from January 2001 to December 2011, which assess...

Violence, a serious public health problem in Thailand, remains largely unknown for its economic costs. This study is a national-level economic cost-estimates of injury from interpersonal and self-directed violence for Thailand during 2005 using the World Health Organization-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidelines. Direct medical costs from self-directed violence totaled 569 m...

OBJECTIVE This prospective study investigates whether changes in health risks are associated with changes in presenteeism (on-the-job productivity loss). METHOD A total of 7026 employees of a national financial services company responded to a health risk appraisal (HRA), which included a modified version of the Work Limitation Questionnaire (WLQ) in both 2002 and 2004. The association between...

Although the impacts of the loss of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning are well established, the importance of the loss of biodiversity relative to other human-caused drivers of environmental change remains uncertain. Results of 11 experiments show that ecologically relevant decreases in grassland plant diversity influenced productivity at least as much as ecologically relevant changes in ni...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the difference in productivity between those who are depressed and those who are not. METHODS A cross-sectional study of depressive and non-depressive employees at a workplace was performed. Data was collected between April and June 2008 through self-reported questionnaires including the Stanford Presenteeism Scale. One thousand employees pa...

Production instability currently limits the use of mammalian cells for industrial production of therapeutic proteins. We have previously reported that the loss of productivity in recombinant monoclonal antibody producing Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO-mAb) cell lines is mainly due to a decrease in heavy chain (HC) and light chain (LC) transcripts. Molecular analysis indicates that the decreased mRN...

The immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) influence physical and mental state of the patients. Additionally, they affect greatly work productivity, not only by eliminating patients in productive age from the working population, but also influencing every-day work performance. The productivity loss, which is significant from the individual’s perspective, can also be measured globally as ...

BACKGROUND The health condition of workers is known to impact on productivity outcomes. The relationship between health and productivity is of increasing interest amid the need to increase productivity to meet global financial challenges. Prevalence of psychological distress is also of growing concern in Australia with a two-fold increase in the prevalence of psychological distress in Australia...