Bosses must 'invest in employees' health'

However healthcare schemes should be focusing more on maintaining people in good health rather than those who become sick. It was also acknowledged that the UK faced the same challenges as the USA, despite boasting a universal healthcare system. Professor Dee Edington of the University of Michigan, who has conducted 30 years of research in the area, told the WPA Health and Productivity conference that the burden for people's health would increasingly fall on employers. And he explained companies should be targeting the health of their workforce as an aim to maintain and increase pr...