Hospital workers get admitted more for obesity, depression and asthma

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Stress at work? Hospital workers get admitted more for obesity, depression and asthma

By Melissa Anders | manders@mlive.com 
on October 18, 2012 at 10:56 AM

"Hospital employees are less healthy and account for more health care costs than the general population, troubling statistics that have Michigan hospitals rethinking the way they do business.

Costs for medical care and prescription drugs were 9 percent higher among hospital employees than the U.S. workforce at large, according to a national study by Ann Arbor-based Truven Health Analytics, formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters."