1. Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke in Enterprises
Dr. Helmut Minten | DCMO | Deutsche Post DHL | European Heart Network - Workshop on Diet, Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Europe | Berlin |

2. Deutsche Post DHL
Maintainig a global infrastructure network for the management and the transport of goods and informations
Expectations from - customers employees investors societies
employees in 220 countries and territories
Business
Challenge
Ressources

3. Challenges

4. ‘Health’ is the ‘Enviroment’ Topic of the Future
Sept. 2011: UN High-Level Meeting on Prevention of Non Communicable Diseases
Focus: Prevention of chronic diseases
- Diseases of the heart / vessels
- Metabolic diseases
- Mental diseases
- Respiratory diseases
- Cancer
Globally enterprises are the biggest global prevention setting
Every invest in the health of the employees, is an invest in the society
Source: The Global Economic Burden of Non-communicable Diseases - A report by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health, September 2011

5. Focal Points of Health Promotion
DP DHL (Germany): Up to measures of health promotion / year
measures in 17 fields of health promotion
2009 in %
Vaccination / protection of infections 20
Nutrition 18 38 11
Muscel- and sceletal system / physical exercise 7 7
Others
Cancer prevention
Prevention of cardio-vascular diseases

6. Heart Check On The Job
Prescreening initiative for employees (‚PROCAM‘)
Medical examination of employees with prospective higher risk via occupational health physicians in the company (5528 men / yrs. and 5814 women / yrs.)
The calculated risk to suffer from heart infarction within 10 years was age adjusted
approximately 40% higher for the screened employees than the control group
Every third men and every fourth women: on spec of lipometabolic disorder
At 12,5% of men + 5,9% of women: on spec of high blood pressure
At 3,2% of men + 2 % of women : on spec of Diabetes mellitus
Higher proportion of smoking employees in comparison to PROCAM population (men: 31,0 % vs. 21,2 %, women: 29,7 % vs. 24,4%).

7. Prevention at work – Measures
For over a third of the participants direct interventions to influence the current lifestyle or to start a medical therapy with a medical specialist were initiated
Examples of intervention programs
- Quit Smoking campaigns
- Sports-/Movement Campaigns
- Regular offer of Health Check Up´s for employees
- „Stress“-Coping-Programs, etc.
Further measures
- Designing of special educational programs (e.g. targeted for executives, trainees…)
- Regular offer of Health Check Up´s for employees
- Creating a healthy workplace (ergonomics, workplace climate, influence one´s work)
- Analyzing data, e.g. from health reporting, risk assesments, employee opinion survey
- Promotion of social networks (e.g. via sport and CSR initiatives)

8. ‘Go by Bike’ 2011 Goal After one year / 2009
km driven by bike instead of using a motor vehicle
- Physical exercise / CO2 reduction
- International activity
After one year / 2009 km
TO CO2 reduction
- Engagement of colleages from 12 countries
- High emotional employee engagement
- Founding of bike alliances
- Conjunction with fundraising activities
2011 km
17 countries

9. Summary - Growing Challenges for Systematic Health Management
Health is a core topic of the 21st century
- economically - ethically
Ageing workforces and a steep increase in chronic diseases worldwide are placing new demands on a systematic health management
The enterprises are the biggest societal setting for an effective prevention of illnesses Occupational Health – as preventative medical discipline - has the key role in integrating Health Management activities in the companies the Occupational Health discipline must be part of an integrated system of medical care and health promotion

10. „Health is the ability to love and to work"
Do not forget
Sigmund Freud
„Health is the ability to love and to work"
„You either live, or stick to your principles“
Erich Kästner
( , famous German Writer) 10 10

11. Back Up

12. Internationale, crossdivisionale, hierarchieübergreifende Teams