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Statistics Concerning Loss of Economic Input and Workdays
- Based on the 2011-2013 National Health Interview Survey, 6.2 million full-time employees suffered from one of the seven functional limitation chronic diseases.
- Arthritis/rheumatism caused 5.1 million employees to lose 19,411,385 workdays per year (roughly $3.54 billion per year).
- Only 1.8% of individuals had functional limitations related to cancer, but it was the second highest in loss of workday and income.
- The seven chronic diseases led to 28.2 million workdays lost, equating to roughly $4.95 billion dollars of lost income.
- For those with two or more chronic diseases and functional limitations, there is a 2.5 fold increase in the number of workdays lost compared to those with one functional limitation disease (and 5.9 fold increase compared to those without limitations in general).
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Updated 2023-11-11
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