What will injury and disability schemes look like in the future? Will flying cars require a change in the definition of ‘road’? Will claimants have personalised monitoring and a sensor…
As actuaries, we know the impact good physical and mental health can have on morbidity and mortality rates. But how much attention do we give to our own body and mind health? Sometimes it is just little changes we can make that can lead to big impacts on how we feel and function.
Whether you work in financial services, insurance, superannuation, wealth management, government or other sectors, actuaries play an important role in contributing to the wellbeing of others. Actuaries support the health and financial wellbeing of others through our professional contributions across a range of industries. But are we doing enough to look after our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of our teams?
Margo Lydon believes this is a golden moment for change in treatment of mental health conditions in Australia and is calling actuaries to consider helpful data outside the medical model, to create better pricing, products and approaches to insurance in the space.
Posted 24 July 2018
