Late last year, Danish ICMIF member Sygeforsikring “danmark” announced it would be distributing DKK 100 million (USD 138,090) to projects that deal with health research, information and prevention thanks to an investment surplus in 2023.

Sygeforsikring “danmark” donates part of its investment profits to healthcare projects and has supported Danish healthcare research, prevention and education since 2020 to help prevent diseases and improve their treatment.

In selecting the projects, the Board attaches importance to the fact that the initiatives improve the future health in Denmark for the individual, their relatives and the Danish population in general.

From the applications received, the board decided to donate money to 31 projects last year, which deal with everything from children’s and young people’s mental health, concussion, food safety, high metabolism, childbirth and breast cancer to brain injury, antibiotic resistance and chronic intestinal inflammation.

Sygeforsikring “danmark” helps Danes every day with subsidies for treatments. In this way, the organisation says it is doing something for Danish public health here and now whilst aiming to ensure a healthier Denmark in the future.

Health – now and in the future

Through what Sygeforsikring “danmark” calls “health donations”, it donates part of its investment surplus to projects within research, prevention and information. This supports the important work that is being done to prevent diseases from occurring in the first place and, at the same time, to improve their treatment if they do occur.

Today, the mutual association supports a wide range of different initiatives, such as improving treatment in the Danish intensive care units, exercise courses targeted at dementia sufferers and supporting the increased involvement of the parents of the many vulnerable children who receive support at special residential homes (Julemærkefondens) every year after issues such as bullying.