International SOS Foundation and Prevent: `Return on Prevention: Cost-benefit analysis of prevention measures for business travellers and international assignees”
A new study commissioned by the International SOS Foundation and published by Prevent reveals the benefits of implementing pre-travel health checks and malaria prevention measures for business travellers and international assignees.
The research shows how organisations who take measures to mitigate the health and travel security risks associated with business travel and international assignment are not only meeting their moral and legal responsibilities; they are also making a wise commercial investment.
“This study proves there are tangible commercial incentives to investing in preventive programmes, in addition to fulfilling an organisations duty of care. Implementing quality, appropriate pre-travel health and malaria programmes can save lives and cut costs. Businesses should not ignore these findings.” remarks Laurent Fourier, Director of the International SOS Foundation.
To determine how the benefits of implementing a travel health prevention strategy significantly outweigh the operating costs, two specific programmes have been analysed:
- A medical check programme for travellers and international assignees aimed at identifying pre-existing medical issues before assigning employees to a foreign country to identify general and work-related health problems before the assignment begins. This analysis showed that $1 invested returns a benefit ranging from $1.6 (minimum scenario) to $2.53 (maximum scenario).
- A malaria prevention programme aimed at employees travelling and working in malaria-risk regions. Employees are given information before departure and receive prophylaxis medication and other technical protection means such as mosquito-nets, insecticide sprays and repellents as well as a malaria curative kit. This programme reduced the occurrence of fatal cases by 70%. The benefits also outweigh the costs in the case of this programme: For each $1 invested, the return was estimated at $1.32.
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