We invited employees to measure their sweetness.

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, the Ageas Portugal Group has carried out a transversal initiative for all its Employees to prevent and monitor Diabetes.

Diabetes

The dimension of Diabetes in Portugal makes it an inescapable theme: 40.3% of the Portuguese population between the ages of 20 and 79 has Diabetes or Hyperglycemia intermedia; are 3.1 million people. *

Diabetes Type 2 corresponds to about 90% of the prevalence of Diabetes in Portugal, being a silent disease that develops throughout life, associated with sedentarism, less healthy eating habits, family history, among others. In the vast majority of cases, it can be avoided, as long as the risk is detected in a timely manner.

Knowing the risk factors and making an early diagnosis of the risk, or of the disease itself when it is installed, is thus key to fighting Diabetes and its consequences.

* Source: National Diabetes Observatory 2016

Médis partnership with APDP

To address the issue of Diabetes in the Ageas Portugal Group, Médis has established a partnership with the Associação Portuguesa de Diabetes em Portugal (APDP), a Private Institution of Social Solidarity with recognized values ​​both in research and in the prevention and treatment of Diabetes.

From this partnership was born the co-creation with Médis of the pioneering pilot project Mede a Tua Doçura.

Measure Your Sweetness

The challenge Measure Your Sweetness - let's take measures to Diabetes, was launched in 1st hand by the Ageas Portugal Group for all its Employees.

Its main objective is to improve the quality of life and general health of employees, with a primary focus on the risk of Diabetes

The various phases of the project

A comprehensive challenge that ranges from raising awareness of risk assessment and diagnosis to a 1 year program for adopting healthier lifestyles, Programa Mais.

The Programa Mais has two perspectives: Prevention of Diabetes (who is at risk) and monitoring and control (diabetics).

The first impact of the project Measures Your Sweetness:

• 1285 Employees covered by the awareness campaign Measure Your Sweetness;
• 905 Risk assessments;
• 9 days of face-to-face screening in the different buildings in Lisbon and Oporto;
• 172 Blood glucose tests (HbA1c);
• 24 Medical consultations and examinations.

The Ageas Portugal Group aims, through Médis, to take this pioneering pilot project to Médis Corporate Customers.

This is a continuous journey for more and better Health.