[Prophylaxis and health promotion--whether and for whom they provide profit?].
The subject of this article is employee and his family, employer, the state in all aspects and health as a profit and a lack of health as a loss. Healthy employee brings a profit to himself, to the employer and to the state. Up to these times nobody has thought about the health value. Work is a commodity. Prophylaxis and health promotion are work. Health can be sold as each commodity. Prophylaxis and health promotion incur expenses but they must be compared with illness results expenses (including immeasurable ones). Having analysed the literature the author claims that the thesis is right so it means that the effects of prophylaxis and health promotion determine the profit to employees and their families, to employers and to the state--which means to all of us.
Szozda
Ryszard J
RJ
Niepublicznego Zakładu Opieki Zdrowotnej-Przychodni Zakładowej, Gliwickim Przedsiebiorstwie Budownictwa Przemysłowego S.A. w Gliwicach. szozda@silesia.pik-net.pl
D004649:Employee Incentive Plans / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D015438:Health Behavior; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods; D011044:Poland