The total costs of healthcare and prevention of workrelated
accidents, injuries and illnesses of the sample
group increased 10% after the program implementation.
The costs of the annual health checkup after the program
implementation increased twice as much as that before
the program implementation. This finding demonstrates
is that the subjects became more aware of the annual
health checkup. As mentioned by WHO, health promotion
strategies are not limited to a specific health problem,
nor to a specific set of behavior6). On the other
hand, the cost for exercise was less. It was found that
the cost increased only 26%. It was apparent that a number
of subjects doing exercise increased 3 times after the
program implementation. Since doing stretching exercise
involved no cost of exercise apparatus and the exercise
could be done during leisure time, such as when watching
TV, the exercise did not result in a loss of income.
The costs of occupational injuries and diseases were classified7–
9). The costs of illness, costs of injuries and costs
of disease were considered in this study. From Table 4,
it is apparent that the treatment costs for work-related
accidents, injuries and illnesses after the program implementation
reduced the treatment costs incurred before the
implementation at 76%. Furthermore, the test on the
research assumption proves that the treatment costs
incurred after the implementation were significantly less
than the costs incurred before the implementation, in
which the treatment costs for accidents and injuries
decreased mostly at 97%; meanwhile, the costs for body
pain and peptic ulcer reduced 39% and 20% respectively.
From the study, it was apparent that most of the treatment
costs (57%) were spent for accidents and injuries;
whereas, 23% was spent for body pain, and 19% was paid
for peptic ulcers. This data reiterates that taking supplementary
food and herbs did not help prevent or reduce
the seriousness of accidents and injuries and did not alleviate
the stomachache from peptic ulcer nor body pain.
From the aforementioned discussion, it can be concluded
that the costs for healthcare and the prevention of work related
accidents, injuries and illnesses by the subjects did
not help reduce treatment costs when they had work-related
accidents, injuries and illnesses.