UAE Amongst Fittest Nations in World

• Report based mostly on Cigna’s annual 360 Effectively-being Survey highlights significance of health initiatives within the UAE geared toward selling an energetic way of life.
• Bodily Effectively-being index within the UAE is 65.4 in comparison with world common of 60, overlaying key markets internationally, says Cigna’s report.

Consistent with its dedication to the general health and well-being, Cigna Insurance coverage Center East [CIME] – the main world well being companies firm, has issued a whitepaper that underpins the United Arab Emirates as one of many fittest nations on this planet.

The Whitepaper corroborates the analysis findings on ‘bodily well-being’ in Cigna’s 360 Effectively-being Survey, which revealed that the UAE is among the many fittest nations on this planet, with a bodily index rating of 65.4 in comparison with a world common of 60.

Over the past 4 years, UAE’s bodily index has grown by practically 5 factors, which coincides with the expansion of a number of neighborhood health initiatives together with the annual Dubai Health Problem in Dubai, Energetic Parks, and Eternally Match initiatives in Abu Dhabi, in addition to different health campaigns in different Emirates.

The Cigna whitepaper reiterates that whereas UAE’s bodily index has grown within the final 4 years, the typical world bodily index has dipped. This consists of key world markets such because the UK, Spain, USA, Australia, and China [which recorded a marginal rise from 63.5 to 63.9].

Curiously, the whitepaper reveals that girls in UAE have gotten fitter – beginning with the bottom bodily well-being rating of 59.2 in 2018, ladies in UAE have risen to 63.2 in 2022. The UAE ladies have thus surpassed not solely world ladies well-being index (which slipped to 58.2) but in addition males globally at 61.7.

In his feedback, Jerome Droesch, CEO of Home Well being and Well being Providers – Cigna Worldwide Markets, mentioned: “Cigna is deeply invested in understanding the well being and well-being wants of the individuals within the UAE, having invested in analysis since 2016. We used historic findings from our annual Cigna 360 Effectively-being Survey to analyse developments in ‘Bodily Effectively-being’ within the UAE and examined the contribution of varied well being and health initiatives undertaken by the federal government authorities to spice up general bodily health within the nation. Cigna collated the findings in a whitepaper, which reveals fascinating insights on individuals’s altering life and their adoption of more healthy bodily health and well-being mindset over the previous 5-6 years.”

Droesch added: “The whitepaper factors out key features of the general well-being ranges of UAE’s ladies in comparison with each women and men globally. Final month, we introduced that UAE has scored the best throughout all well-being indices – bodily, social, household, monetary, and work, as in comparison with key world markets such because the UK, US, China, Spain, and Australia. Amongst different governmental measures to enhance the standard of life of individuals within the UAE, enchancment within the general well-being indices will also be attributed in direction of such fitness-related initiatives in varied Emirates.”

The whitepaper additionally provides that extra millennials within the UAE, these within the 25-34 age-group, really feel they’re at a ‘Wholesome Weight’ in 2022 – 50 per cent in comparison with 37 per cent in 2020 and are ‘exercising usually’ – which is about 40 per cent at the moment in comparison with solely 25 per cent in 2020.

In one other fascinating discovering within the whitepaper, working mother and father with kids finding out within the UAE haven’t solely scored higher than their world counterparts of their bodily well-being rating [66.7 compared to 64 globally], but in addition beat these mother and father working with out kids in UAE [65.3].

“Health initiatives throughout the UAE exhibit the dedication of the federal government to advertise a extra energetic way of life within the nation. Backed by its world-class infrastructure, these initiatives contribute instantly and considerably in direction of making Dubai and the UAE the popular place to stay and work. Cigna’s whitepaper reinforces this level past doubt,” added Droesch.

The eighth annual 360° World Effectively-Being Survey 2022 was performed by Cigna in April and Might 2022, overlaying 11,922 respondents aged 18-65 years throughout key markets worldwide.