A new survey examines the extent to which happiness and health affect one another.
There are clear parallels not only in Germany.
The online retailer Lenstore examined the relationship between health and happiness and compared the happiest regions of Germany with a series of health measures, such as the proportion of morbidly obese people and life expectancy. It turned out that
Hamburg is not only the happiest region, but also the one with the lowest proportion of morbidly obese people
. In addition, the Hanseatic city scores with the most doctors per 100,000 inhabitants (365).
Schleswig-Holstein, Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria take second to fifth place.
According to the Lenstore survey, Baden-Württemberg has the highest life expectancy at 82 years, followed by Bavaria (81.7 years) and Hesse (81.4).
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt, on the other hand, most people live with morbid obesity * - 20.6 percent and 20.2 percent, respectively.
Regarding most hospitals per 100
.
With a population of 3.73, Schleswig-Holstein comes off best.
Finland, Denmark, Switzerland: the happiest countries in the world
Lenstore also conducted this study on a global scale.
84 countries were compared with a striking result:
those without generally accessible health care were on average 0.4 points below the countries with general access.
Each country analyzed was measured on the basis of happiness, life expectancy, availability and quality of health care, physical activity of the people, the frequency of poor eyesight and the values of the World Health Index.
These countries therefore have the happiest inhabitants:
Finland
: With an excellent health system that is accessible to all citizens, a life expectancy of 76 years and a happiness score of 7.8 out of 10, Finland ranks first as a healthy and happy country.
Denmark
: In the meantime, the Danes lead a healthy life by combining good nutrition, exercise and a balanced life. As a result, obesity, for example, occurs less often. This in turn means that preventable diseases are less common and that most health care resources can be used for accidents and disasters. It is therefore no surprise that Denmark has a score of 7.6 out of 10 in the World Happiness Report and, at 72 years, it is the 17th highest life expectancy in the world.
Switzerland
: The Swiss health system, Santésuisse, combines public, privately subsidized and purely private health systems and thus forms one of the best equipped health systems in the world.
With its notoriously short waiting lists, Switzerland is in second place on the index for accessibility and quality of the healthcare system (91.8).
Switzerland also ranks third for happiness with a score of 7.6.
With a happiness index value of 7.1, Germany is on par with Israel and just behind Great Britain and Australia (both 7.2).
(jg)
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