Life, by definition, is a succession of changes. In recent years, the major changes we are experiencing are related to the world of technology; their overriding characteristic is the speed at which they appear, as well as how they are drastically changing our way of...
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MAPFRE week, our firm’s commitment to the health and well-being of mapfre personnel
MAPFRE Week: Target Health is an annual project which has been organized for the last three years throughout the world to foster the participation and collaboration of employees, promoting MAPFRE’s commitment to every aspect of their health and well-being through its...
YOU COULD SAVE A LIFE!
Last June, in MAPFRE we started a global campaign to raise awareness of the need for bone marrow donations, an act of solidarity which, in many cases, is the only glimmer of hope for those suffering from leukemia and other blood diseases. Why are we in MAPFRE so...
Alzheimer, the disease that makes us forget
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as it accounts for some 60-70 percent of all dementias worldwide. Alzheimer’s affects 50 million people, with ten million new cases registered each year. In...
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, THE KEY TO BEING HAPPIER
Psychology has traditionally devoted more time to studying people’s problems (anxiety, stress, depression, etc.) than to analyzing the positive aspects of life. Positive Psychology basically consists in placing the focus on an individual’s psychological...
MENOPAUSE, ONE MORE PHASE IN A WOMAN’S LIFE
The menopause is not a disease, but rather a stage in a woman’s life. It is perfectly normal; however, given the variety of symptoms and the ways of dealing with them, not all women go through this phase in the same manner. Some even seek medical advice for coping...
Stress, know it well to manage it better
Fortunately, nowadays we seldom face mortaldangers… but our body continues to deploy the same responses that enabled primitive human beings to activate their reaction system in the face of some threat (usually of death). In evolutionary terms, stress and its complex...
Health trip for international travel
When planning a trip, whether for work or leisure, there are certain health-related issues we have to take into account. We offer you here some tips for before, during and after the trip. TEXT Área Corporativa de Recursos Humanos | PHOTOS Thinkstock BEFORE It is...