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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, the ROI on employees' health and well-being.

I speak with Ron Getzel,

director of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about how a workplace's culture can help employees feel safe, valued, and

healthy, and why it's well worth the investment. We'll also talk about some tools and resources

for employers to evaluate how well they're doing and how they can shore up supports for staff

in all kinds of workplaces. Let's listen. Ron Getzel, thank you so much for being on public

health on call. It's good to have you. Thanks for inviting me, Lindsay. Pleasure to be here.

So you're an expert in health and productivity management. Tell us what does that entail?

Well, it's interesting. It's actually a very unique aspect of public health, which is a collaboration

between the business community and the public health community.

And the reason that's important is think about the 160 million or so Americans who go to work every day,

and they spend the majority of their waking hours at work and contrast that with how often you visit your doctor

or other health care provider or interact with public health community.

And usually it's in response to a crisis as opposed to public health, things that you need to do

and the community needs to do to keep you healthy.

So in short, Americans really don't want to have more expensive health care in their lives.

They want to live a healthy and productive life

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