How Does Yearly Preventive Health Checkup Help In Reducing Healthcare Costs?

What is a ‘preventive’ health checkup?

It is a combination of diagnostic and laboratory tests to check the health of all the organs and body to identify the risk factors and lifestyle diseases that might be developing in the body, at an early stage. Lifestyle diseases or non-communicable diseases are completely preventable and curable if detected early. 

Why go for health checkups every year?

• Your body, and its health undergoes changes every day. Your daily lifestyle and your surrounding environment is continuously affecting your health. 

• Your lifestyle is composed of the food you consume, your physical activities, stress levels, sleep cycle, your habits like smoking or drinking alcohol, etc. 

• Your environment is everything around you, like pollution, sound, etc. Being healthy is a state of complete wellbeing in terms of your body, and mind. 

• You might not have much control over your environment, but you have complete control on your lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle leads to a healthy body. Regular health checkups are a part of a healthy lifestyle.

Any disease or abnormality developing in your body because of your environment, lifestyle or  genetically passed on from family can be detected with full body health checkups. You need to get yourself checked at yearly intervals because your daily life affects your health. Your health checkup report shows you the picture of your current health.     

How does yearly health checkups reduce costs and save lives?

Medical and financial research has shown that yearly preventive health checkups are more of an investment than an expense. Lifestyle diseases like cancer do not show any symptoms in their beginning stages, they show signs only when they reach a fatal stage. Sadly, most of the time, it results in loss of life, and immense out of pocket expenses, along with mental trauma for the family.

On the other hand, with yearly checkups, you know your health status - therefore you are empowered to make informed decisions about your health. In case of any disease detected in your reports, you can quickly consult your doctor about the changes you should be making to your lifestyle, and planning a possible treatment plan. Treatment at an early stage is cost effective and non-invasive, and can lead to a complete cure.

Want to know a fun fact - yearly full body health checkups can also get you an income tax rebate. Book your preventive health checkup now.