Smart people get sick less than others

One study found that workers with high thinking ability tend to be sick less than those with low intelligence.

Max Henderson, a researcher at King's University in the UK, thinks that the intelligence index is related to the employee's level of sick leave. So Max and his colleagues studied more than 23,000 people. They are people who have been evaluated for their thinking ability as children. The evaluation process took place in 1946, 1958 and 1970, Telegraph reported.

Improving education is one of the battles
strategy to reduce the level of sick leave.

The team divided the subjects into three groups by year, where they were tested for intelligence.

For "1946" , 47% of those who had long-term sick leave were among those with the lowest IQ in childhood. The percentage of people with the highest IQs on long-term leave is only 13%.

About 41% of the people who took sick leave in "group 1958" belong to the group with the lowest IQ. The same number of the smartest people in "1970s" is 32%.

The results showed that the lower the ability of workers to think, the higher the risk of long-term sick leave. In other words, early childhood thinking has a strong impact on the level of absence of workers at work due to illness. Therefore, the research team thinks that raising children's education is one of the ways to reduce their sick leave when they become workers.

"Our findings show that health is not the only factor that determines the time of sick leave at work," the team concluded.