The 2024 Benefits Canada Healthcare Survey – A PERFECT STORM – Frontline Perspectives To Help Navigate New Waters for Health Benefits and Wellness Initiatives. Included in this report is a summary of the 5 key talking points in benefits in 2024 (see page 46 for more information).

HOLISTIC PICTURE OF HEALTH

Financial, social and workplace health play their parts in good overall and mental health. A fifth of plan members described their mental health as poor, while roughly the same number have a diagnosed mental-health condition and almost two in five felt a sense of loneliness or disconnection from their colleagues and workplace. Physical activity, better sleep and weight loss were the top goals to improve health, but time, cost and motivation were barriers. Three in five plan members live with a chronic condition and one in five experienced a major injury or illness in the past year. Among those who used the health-care system extensively in the past year, almost half described the experience as extremely or somewhat difficult.

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