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Table 2 Overview of codes, subcategories and the five final themes

From: What are the economic dimensions of occupational health and how should they be measured? A qualitative study

Main themes

Subcategory 1

Subcategory 2

Subcategory 3

Total number of codes

Total number of references

Understanding of OHM

What is OHM (21)

  

21

50

Costs of OHM

Direct costs (11)

  

205

525

Indirect costs (201)

Attitudes towards OHM (18)

 

Culture (100)

Culture-inhibiting (36)

Culture-promoting (64)

Convincing leadership (14)

 

Integration into existing structures (30)

 

Other costs (20)

 

Benefits of OHM

Corporate success (89)

Qualitative outcomes (43)

 

125

328

Quantitative outcomes (46)

Resources and demands (17)

Health (18)

Environmental aspects of OHM

Company’s environment (9)

  

10

33

Employees’ environment (8)

Evaluation of OHM

Arguments against economic evaluations (25)

  

264

663

Chances of economic evaluations (25)

  

Methodological aspects (180)

Data collection (29)

Quantification of benefits (33)

Study design (34)

 

Perspectives (9)

 

Modelling approaches (22)

 

Impact models (73)

 

Time horizon (7)

 

Target population (6)

 
  1. The number in brackets indicate the number of codes for each subcategory. The codes do not sum up to total codes because some codes were allocated into more than one subcategory