The rapid growth of global industrialization and an accelerating pace of modern lifestyle create stress and cause fatigue, leading to a sub-health status among many working professionals and corporate executives. In addition, environmental pollution and human interference has obstructed the chain of nature cycle and disrupted the biological balance of human life, causing the outbreak of many unprecedented infectious disease such as the SARs, bird flu, mad cow disease, and dengue fever. In particular, inadequate control of industrial waste disposal may cause severe health disaster.Action Defines Our Wellness—we must strengthen our effort on preventive healthcare.

Health is a National Responsibility: Governments at all levels have the responsibility to establish an efficient health system that reaches most if not all of their nationals. This includes a hygienic living environment, appropriate public healthcare policies, a sustainable public health finance system and well-coordinated health efforts from both the public and private sectors.

Health is a Corporate Responsibility: Corporations should endorse a healthy environment and introduce a wellness management system that serves to improve work efficiency and reduce health cost. Employee wellness is a major driving force for talent retention and corporate competitiveness, and should not be mistaken as merely an employee benefit item.

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Health is a Personal Responsibility: Individuals should initiate learning that strengthen their health awareness, as well as take persistent actions to improve their health state.