About this Research Topic
Prior health studies have explored the relationship between employee health and employee performance, e.g., productivity, innovation, etc., at the workplace. A few studies also show that at the country level, health and healthcare expenditure are positively associated with economic performance. However, the studies that investigate the associations between health and corporate/urban outcomes (in term of sustainability practices, economic value, growth, resilience, etc.) remain scant. Employee health & safety is a key item in corporate sustainability practices. Companies that are exposed to the risk of health & safety accidents could suffer production disruption, liabilities, lawsuits, etc.; employee health also influences corporate culture, employee satisfaction, productivity, innovation, financial performance and its long-term value. Health can also influence urban vitality and economic growth. Cities with good public health could also be more resilient to pandemic, such as COVID-19. Sustainability becomes the key theme in corporate and urban developments. Further studies are needed to explore the roles of health in firms and cities, real impacts and values.
This Research Topic aims to summarize original research articles, reviews, and opinion pieces that explore the current state of corporate employee health as well as urban health, influencing factors of employee/urban health, and the relationship between health and corporate/urban sustainability, e.g., corporate environmental, society and governance (ESG), corporate culture, innovations, productivities, long-term value, accidents and fatalities, urban vitality, resilience to crisis, etc. In identifying approaches to accurately measure, assess, and improve employee/urban health and investigating the cost and benefit of health to corporate and urban, the current Research Topic strives to further substantiate the significance of health in the interdisciplinary field of public health, business and urban studies. It will yield policy implications to firms and governments, and urge them to promote employee/urban health.
We welcome a series of original research, review, synthesis, and systematic review articles from researchers in the field covering (but not limited to) the following topics:
• Current pattern of corporate employee health in listed firms in different regions and markets worldwide
• Public health expenditure and urban health in cities in developed and developing countries
• Factors influencing health & safety performance in firms and cities
• Ways to improve corporate employee health and urban health performance
• Employee health and corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG)
• Employee health and sustainability, e.g., corporate culture, productivity, innovation, etc.
• Employee health and its long-term value to listed firms
• Employee health and risks/accidents in health & safety
• Corporate optimal employee health & safety strategy
• Association of health and resilience to crisis/pandemic
• Urban health performance and urban vitality
• Public health and the recovery of cities from pandemic
• Development of new tools for measuring urban health performance
This Research Topic aims to summarize original research articles, reviews, and opinion pieces that explore the current state of corporate employee health as well as urban health, influencing factors of employee/urban health, and the relationship between health and corporate/urban sustainability, e.g., corporate environmental, society and governance (ESG), corporate culture, innovations, productivities, long-term value, accidents and fatalities, urban vitality, resilience to crisis, etc. In identifying approaches to accurately measure, assess, and improve employee/urban health and investigating the cost and benefit of health to corporate and urban, the current Research Topic strives to further substantiate the significance of health in the interdisciplinary field of public health, business and urban studies. It will yield policy implications to firms and governments, and urge them to promote employee/urban health.
We welcome a series of original research, review, synthesis, and systematic review articles from researchers in the field covering (but not limited to) the following topics:
• Current pattern of corporate employee health in listed firms in different regions and markets worldwide
• Public health expenditure and urban health in cities in developed and developing countries
• Factors influencing health & safety performance in firms and cities
• Ways to improve corporate employee health and urban health performance
• Employee health and corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG)
• Employee health and sustainability, e.g., corporate culture, productivity, innovation, etc.
• Employee health and its long-term value to listed firms
• Employee health and risks/accidents in health & safety
• Corporate optimal employee health & safety strategy
• Association of health and resilience to crisis/pandemic
• Urban health performance and urban vitality
• Public health and the recovery of cities from pandemic
• Development of new tools for measuring urban health performance
Keywords: Health, Sustainability, Economic value, Urban vitality, Resilience
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