US Study Finds Relationship Between Paid Sick Leave Days and Preventative Medicine

Wednesday 07 March, 2018 Written by Simon Collyer

In the first study to measure the link between an employee's number of paid sick leave days and the use of vital preventive health care services like getting a flu shot, researchers found a 26 to 85 percent increase in preventive health care use among those with at least 10 or more paid sick leave days.

For the female-focused preventive services, they showed a 55 percent increase in the use of preventive mammography.