The 'Business Case' for Investing in Employee Health : A Review of the Literature and Employer Self-Assessments

This paper reports on the findings from interviews with six large employers to learn more about what these employers actually do to promote employee health beyond offering health plans, why they do what they do, how they financially justify what they do to their peers and superiors, and what the prospects are for their more expansive and longer-term approach to health benefits costs in the current general economic climate and in the face of sustained health care inflation