# Health and work: regional health reporting on employees in Germany

## TL;DR

This paper explores how work affects employee health in Germany using regional health data and interactive tools.

## Contribution

The paper introduces interactive online tools for analyzing and comparing employee health data across regions and healthcare sectors in Germany.

## Key findings

- Regional health data from employees is made accessible through interactive online diagrams.
- Comparisons across healthcare sectors are possible due to standardized data structures.
- The analysis highlights the impact of work and workplace health promotion on employee health outcomes.

## Abstract

The vast majority of people work a large part of their live, therefore work inevitably has a major impact on health as well. In Germany, great efforts are made to improve health and well-being in the occupational context. To support this, the evaluation of health data especially from employees is one the main scopes in health reporting of the Federal Association of Company Health Insurance Funds (BKK Dachverband). These results are made available to the interested public via various publication channels, including interactive online diagrams. Data from the areas of incapacity to work, outpatient and inpatient care as well as drug prescriptions are applied. Due to the in large parts identically structured representations, comparisons across health care system sectors are also possible. The aim of this article is to describe the provided regional health care data of employees with focus on the interactive data provision, to show by example particularities in single sources and across sources. From this the impact of work as well as workplace health promotion on the health of employees and, in a broader sense, the quality of health care in Germany can be derived.