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Our Global Health & Benefits Perspective and related material cover the health & benefits landscape.
On this page, you can access past issues of the Global Health & Benefits Perspective and download the PDFs in English.
You may also directly access the topic-based collection or the geography-based collection. Previous editions:
A look at the current environment for comprehensive health care reform in the US: its components, costs and recent federal activity.
Aging workforces: The inevitable challenge in Europe An examination of the economic impact of population aging with a particular focus on the Netherlands.
Contain health care costs during the downturn Mercer's experience in Asia: Viewing the current recession as a window of opportunity for creating long-term financial stability.
A summary of the key elements of the recent reform and its implications for the near future.
Flexible benefits: Can you afford not to offer them? It is especially important in the current economic climate for employers to review their spending on employee rewards and to consider whether a greater return could be achieved by allocating that amount differently. While written from a European perspective, this article's conclusion that employers should provide flexibility or flexible benefit for their employees applies across geographies.
Absence management in Canada and the US: Leveraging advantages across borders Comparing how absences are managed between the United States and Canada is not easy. This article provides a view of the similarities and differences in the two countries’ employers and group disability carriers' approaches to managing absences.
Managing employee health in Asia In many Asian countries, rising infectious disease rates, unhealthy lifestyle habits brought by economic growth and commonplace road accidents mix to create a concoction of health care headaches for employers. This article describes the differences among countries, the importance of understanding cost drivers, and how to manage costs by developing employee health care strategies.
Managing company health care plans in Latin America The real challenge to managing employee health care across Latin America comes from the diversity of health care delivery and financing across countries. This article provides guidance on how best to implement a multinational health benefits strategy across the region.
Managing health care benefit expense in today’s unprecedented economic times This article focuses on the health care challenges the economy is putting on employers and employees in the US. The impact of the financial crisis on human capital, benefits and investments in other geographies can be found at www.mercer.com/unprecedentedtimes
Flexible benefits: Can you afford not to offer them? It is especially important in the current economic climate for employers to review their spending on employee rewards and to consider whether a greater return could be achieved by allocating that amount differently. While written from a European perspective, this article's conclusion that employers should provide flexibility or flexible benefit for their employees applies across geographies.
Is spending on health & benefits a good investment? Mercer’s 2008 Pan-European health and benefits survey provides unique insights into the challenges employers are facing and what they believe to be their priorities across countries with a diverse spread of economic, social and historical backgrounds.
Healthcare planning for an aging world Excerpted from Mercer’s Perspective related to the recent World Economic Forum report (visit our site www.mercer.com/wef this article tracks the possible impacts of the macro forces identified in the report and outlines some initial stakeholder responses
Global health management: Discovering value and savings Throughout the world, leaders of multinational companies – and their shareholders – are becoming increasingly concerned about rising health care costs and their impact on their companies’ future fortunes. This article identifies the key drivers of strategic global health care and describes how multinationals can develop and implement global health care programs.
Recognizing the value of flex in Asia Asia’s businesses are recognizing the value of flex as an attraction and retention tool to help in the war for talent as well as a cost-containment solution. This article explains how flex works, highlights the results of flex surveys conducted by Mercer in China and Singapore, and provides a case study.
Employee benefit plans – Why manage globally? Multinational companies often struggle to find the time to effectively manage the plethora of insured employee benefit plans that they have around the world. This article argues for taking a more centralized approach to the management of insured employee benefits and better leveraging the network of brokers and consultants through the consolidation of providers.
Topic-based archives
Health ManagementAbsence management in Canada and the US: Leveraging advantages across borders Comparing how absences are managed between the United States and Canada is not easy. This article provides a view of the similarities and differences in the two countries’ employers and group disability carriers' approaches to managing absences.
In many Asian countries, rising infectious disease rates, unhealthy lifestyle habits brought by economic growth and commonplace road accidents mix to create a concoction of health care headaches for employers. This article describes the differences among countries, the importance of understanding cost drivers, and how to manage costs by developing employee health care strategies.
The real challenge to managing employee health care across Latin America comes from the diversity of health care delivery and financing across countries. This article provides guidance on how best to implement a multinational health benefits strategy across the region.
Global health management: Discovering value and savings Throughout the world, leaders of multinational companies – and their shareholders – are becoming increasingly concerned about rising health care costs and their impact on their companies’ future fortunes. This article identifies the key drivers of strategic global health care and describes how multinationals can develop and implement global health care programs.
Is spending on health & benefits a good investment? Mercer’s 2008 Pan-European health and benefits survey provides unique insights into the challenges employers are facing and what they believe to be their priorities across countries with a diverse spread of economic, social and historical backgrounds. Total Rewards & Flexible BenefitsFlexible benefits: Can you afford not to offer them? It is especially important in the current economic climate for employers to review their spending on employee rewards and to consider whether a greater return could be achieved by allocating that amount differently. While written from a European perspective, this article's conclusion that employers should provide flexibility or flexible benefit for their employees applies across geographies.
Recognizing the value of flex in Asia Asia’s businesses are recognizing the value of flex as an attraction and retention tool to help in the war for talent as well as a cost-containment solution. This article explains how flex works, highlights the results of flex surveys conducted by Mercer in China and Singapore, and provides a case study.
Flexible benefits: Increasing the perceived value of the total benefit What’s driving this strategy in Latin America and many emerging economies are some of the same issues that drove flex in the US – demographic change, untenable cost inflation and shifting values. This article defines flexible benefits, explains their resurgence, compares them to a total rewards structure and describes how Latin American countries are using flex and why it is popular in emerging economies. Global strategiesGlobal health management: Discovering value and savings Throughout the world, leaders of multinational companies – and their shareholders – are becoming increasingly concerned about rising health care costs and their impact on their companies’ future fortunes. This article identifies the key drivers of strategic global health care and describes how multinationals can develop and implement global health care programs.
Employee benefit plans – Why manage globally? Multinational companies often struggle to find the time to effectively manage the plethora of insured employee benefit plans that they have around the world. This article argues for taking a more centralized approach to the management of insured employee benefits and better leveraging the network of brokers and consultants through the consolidation of providers. Financial and compliance riskAging workforces: The inevitable challenge in Europe An examination of the economic impact of population aging with a particular focus on the Netherlands.
Contain health care costs during the downturn Mercer's experience in Asia: Viewing the current recession as a window of opportunity for creating long-term financial stability
Managing health care benefit expense in today’s challenging economic times This article focuses on the health care challenges the economy is putting on employers and employees in the US. The impact of the financial crisis on human capital, benefits and investments in other geographies can be found at www.mercer.com/unprecedentedtimes.
Healthcare planning for an aging world Excerpted from Mercer’s Perspective related to the recent World Economic Forum report (visit our site www.mercer.com/wef ), this article tracks the possible impacts of the macro forces identified in the report and outlines some initial stakeholder responses. Health care reformA look at the current environment for comprehensive health care reform in the US: its components, costs and recent federal activity.
A summary of the key elements of the recent reform and its implications for the near future.
Geography-based archives
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