The impact on companies
During his presentation “The hidden costs of not prioritizing women’s health” at Roche Press Day 2024, held on October 23 and 24, Claudia Restrepodirector of the Deloitte firm for Latin America, explained that within the range of diseases that a woman can have, there are two enemies: absenteeism and work presenteeism.
“Absenteeism is evident, someone is going to arrive and did not arrive, presenteeism is someone who is there, but is not able to perform as well as they can and is more difficult to identify. Presenteeism is more costly than absenteeism and it is a hidden cost,” he points out.
Presenteeism, she explains, not only impacts women’s health but also their economy, since they will need to earn 20% more than men to treat their clinical situation.
Presenteeism is up to three times more costly than absenteeism and is a hidden cost both for companies and for women’s economies, because it represents that women lose 0.82 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Claudia Restrepo.
The director of Deloitte explains that premenstrual syndrome, menopause, migraines, among other health conditions in women can be quantified by absenteeism within companies
But consider that most companies are not prepared to detect that a woman has an undiagnosed or untreated health problem, which has an impact on her daily life and her school or professional activities.
(David Santiago)
For Mayte Pérez, medical director of Roche Mexico, she presented the , private initiative and academia.
He explained that in this project, not only the company they represent participates, but also prestigious researchers from public and private universities, health experts from different countries in the world and civil society organizations, to generate scientific documents that help create information. sufficient for the treatment of female health.
