- Are physical, mental and financial well-being interconnected?
- Health is wealth, but does having wealth necessarily mean being healthy?
Building Blocks Of Life
In a survey of 10,000 people in China, Hong Kong and the UK, as well as over 2,000 people in Singapore, a HSBC Study sought to find out whether physical, mental and financial health are interconnected. Let’s dive into their insights and correlate it to other studies to find out if this old saying of health = wealth continues to hold true.
We will be focusing on two areas of the study:
Physical, Mental And Financial Well-Being Are Interconnected
The HSBC study found that financial health improves with better physical and mental health.
In Singapore, 87% of those who said they were physically healthy also indicated they were mentally fit, whereas 55% of the above said they were also financially fit. In contrast, out of the group that said they were physically unfit, only 37% said they were mentally fit and 23%...