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Doing more sport saves 8 billion a year

2023-02-17T18:18:10.683Z


By tackling physical inactivity, EU countries could save 0.6% of their healthcare budget. One in three adults in the European Union has an insufficient level of physical activity, and 45% of the population say they never do sport. This sedentary lifestyle is not only harmful to individual health, but collectively weighs on public health spending, which is already under pressure. However, if everyone followed WHO recommendations - 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week - this would


One in three adults in the European Union has an insufficient level of physical activity, and 45% of the population say they never do sport.

This sedentary lifestyle is not only harmful to individual health, but collectively weighs on public health spending, which is already under pressure.

However, if everyone followed WHO recommendations - 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week - this would save 10,000 lives a year and prevent 11.5 million new cases of disease by 2050, says a report. of the OECD published on Friday.

Thus, 3.8 million cases of cardiovascular disease, 3.5 million cases of depression, nearly 1 million cases of type 2 diabetes and more than 400,000 cases of cancer could be avoided.

In the end, life expectancy would increase by 7.5 months for insufficiently active people.

While this is a major public health issue, it is also a public finance issue: by tackling physical inactivity, European Union countries could save 0.6% of their health budget, this report points out.

That is a saving of nearly 8 billion euros per year,

The lack of physical activity increases with age: only a quarter of over-55s practice a sport or exercise at least once a week.

Women (58%) are less active than men (73%).

The socio-economic condition also influences: only 24% of the modest categories declare that they do sport regularly against 51% of the wealthy categories.

Source: lefigaro

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