The Atman Center in Sophia Antipolis hosted the presentation of the “Health Sport” program by UPE06, which brought together about a hundred business leaders, sports executives, and other experts.
This conference organized for business leaders as part of the partnership agreement between UPE06 and the Club of Leaders of Sophia Antipolis aimed to launch and implement the “Fit Company” project, or “how to use physical activity and/or sport for the health of employees and business leaders in a given area.”
The main theme and sub-themes were addressed by the speakers, witnesses, and institutions (Denis Masseglia for the CNOSF and Mrs. Dominique Carla’ch for the national MEDEF) from different perspectives, which helped to understand and better appreciate the issues.
In fact, to summarize the most significant point, as explained by Martine Duclos, a university professor, Head of the Sports Medicine department at CHU of Clermont Ferrand and scientific advisor for Health Sport to the Ministry of Sport: physical activity extends lifespan by three years, while a sedentary lifestyle reduces it by three years!
Easy to calculate the impact on public and private expenditures. Figures that need no explanation or comment!
Whether the goal is to raise awareness of the benefits of physical activity and promote behavior changes aimed at health prevention, or that well-being, particularly quality of work life, are paramount to improving employee performance and, by extension, the overall performance of the company…the interest remains the same and is shared: to change behaviors, to encourage physical activity.
The merit of this conference is to have tackled this issue without prejudice but within a scientific, social, and societal analysis framework.
An initial step that calls for follow-ups to keep this topic relevant.
