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Occupational Medicine 1976;26:21-30
© 1976 Society of Occupational Medicine

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An Approach to the Financial Evaluation of Occupational Health Services

G. R. C. ATHERLEY, R. W. CALE, M. F. DRUMMOND* and H. KOLOZYN

University of Aston in Birmingham

This paper attempts to provide a method for estimating the value in financial terms to the company and employees of various activities comprising a company occupational health service, as well as the costs of those activities. Benefits are allocated to ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ categories depending on the degree of availability of current methods of analysis and the sophistication needed for their quantification. An equation is proposed to provide a framework for the evaluation of occupational health services by occupational health practitioners. The method has been developed in conjunction with a number of occupational health practitioners (listed in Appendix 2) who have applied it to activities in their own services. Questions concerning the overall allocation of health care resources are also discussed.

Professor G. R. C. Atherley, Department of Safety and Hygiene, University of Aston in Birmingham, West Midlands.


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