PSMAS in lifestyle programme drive

PSMAS in lifestyle programme drive
Published: 31 August 2017
Zimbabwe's biggest healthcare funder by membership, Premier Service Medical Aid (PSMAS), has launched a lifestyle programme which it says will save the country up to $2 billion in health costs in the next five years.

The "Premier Lifestyle" is a response to the effects of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) which have been identified as a major consumer of productive time and cause of death due to modifiable lifestyle risk factors such as lack of physical activity, poor diet, risky behaviours such as smoking and high alcohol intake as well as stress.

With a local market share of over 70 percent by membership, PSMAS say the program which teaches their membership on good living practices will most importantly, cause no side effects to patients as opposed to other medical remedies.

This, the group said, is a response to an increase in the burden from these conditions on its membership, which has also affected members' employers and consequently resulted in increased healthcare costs.
- the herald
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