Health & the Entrepeneur
Good Health = Economic Growth
- Good health is an investment in economic growth
- Preventative health can avert 40 million cases of chronic diseases in the year 2031
- Prevention could improve productivity by $1.1 trillion in 2031
- Reducing body weight to reasonable and achievable levels could trim the incidence of disease by 14.8 million cases by 2023, saving $60 billion in treatment costs(1)
Facts:
- Rotating shift work increases risk of total death and ischemic heart diseases (2)
- Self-employed people have the highest levels of work-to-home conflict (3)
- Self-employed people tend to work overtime hours, which is associated with higher levels of job stress (4)
- Stress is the top work-related factor that increases risk of a heart attack (5)
- Self-employed and unemployed men have increased risk of cancers and circulatory disease compared to full-time employees (2)
Health to Wealth Benefits
- Reduce sleepless nights
- Improve energy & productivity
- Reduce sick time
- Avoid long wait times at walk-in clinics
- Be pain-free on the job
- Be medication-free
- Manage your stress effectively
Health to Wealth Strategies
- Individualized health care & nutrition plans
- Supplement review & recommendations
- Massage and Acupuncture for pain relief
- Weekly B12 shots for energy
- Full physical exams
- Well woman visits with pap smears
Resources:
1. Chronic diseases sap U.S. Productivity by Lisa Girion LA Times – Washington Post; Oct 3, 2007
2. Fujino et al. Occupational factors and mortality in the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for Evaluations of Cancer (JACC). Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2007;8 Suppl:97-104
3. Scheiman et al. The nature of work and the stress of higher status. J Health Soc Behav. 2006 Sep;47(3):242-57
4. Grosch et al. Long hours of work in the U.S.: associations with demographic and organizational characteristics, psychosocial working conditions, and health. Am J Ind Med. 2006 Nov;49(11):943-52.
5. Bortkiewicz et al. Work-related risk factors of myocardial infarction. Int. J Occup Med Environ Health 2010;23(3):255-65.