Health care
By health care one understands measures, which are to serve to receive and improve the health as on a long-term basis as possible. To achieve these goals there are various preventive measures that can be taken. Many think with the term health care of the older generations.
Actually the health care begins however already with the birth. In fact, in addition to the better-known measures such as mammography (X-ray examination of the female breast for early detection of diseases, especially cancer) and the recommended colonoscopy (which is covered by health insurance companies from the age of 50), health care also includes vaccinations, other general examinations such as measuring intraocular pressure, bone density measurement, hormone tests, genetic tests, tooth cleaning or prenatal care. Health care therefore covers everyone, from newborns, children and adolescents to adults and seniors. Some health care measures are recommended from a certain age or in the case of known pre-existing conditions or occurrences in the family and are often covered or subsidized by health insurance companies. In general, the sentence can be remembered well: It is better to prevent than to treat.
What is the health rate?
In the health care system, the concept of the health rate has been coming to the fore for some years now, replacing the old familiar sickness rate. Both terms say exactly the same thing, namely how many employees were present in the company or absent due to illness during a calendar year.From an economic and emotional point of view, it is much more attractive and positive to focus on the health rate and thus on the part of the employees who are present. It is therefore important to maintain or possibly improve the more or less positive results of the health rate.
Here it goes over then fluently into measures, in order to reach this goal. One way to do this is through preventive health care. In concrete terms, this means in companies that the focus is placed on the health of the employees, so that, for example, health-promoting courses or events are offered, a first-aid network in the company is expanded, preventive health measures are promoted or ergonomics in the workplace is improved. With this background, it becomes clear that it is difficult to provide a generally applicable solution for maintaining and improving the health rate, since working conditions and physical and mental stress vary greatly in the various sectors. Individual solutions are therefore the means of choice to support the health rate in the long term.
