The Blue Zones Project, currently in eighty communities helping 5+ million people, has proven that prevention is more efficient and effective than traditional approaches anchored on acute fixes and chronic repairs. Moving “upstream” to address the causes of illness, both clinical and non-clinical, is not only financially sensible but also ethically prudent.
As reimbursement for healthcare migrates from fee-for-service to value-based care, a healthier population becomes advantageous. Capitated populations, Medicare Advantage, Managed Medicaid, and medically self-insured organizations all benefit by preventing illness using Blue Zones Project principles. Moreover, increased productivity, deeper engagement, better satisfaction, and improved health and happiness contribute to advancing people, organizations, communities, and entire states.
Readily available, precise, contemporaneous, geolocation metrics can be employed to target specific opportunities focusing on people, places, and policies. Over almost twenty years, Blue Zones Project has honed and consolidated best practices into a “playbook” for communities desiring change.
The initiative that puts you in the heart of community transformation
Blue Zones Project is a community-led well-being initiative that brings together community stakeholders and national well-being experts to introduce evidence-based programs and permanent changes to the built environment, policy, and social networks. Together, these experts and programs measurably improve well-being, thus objectively transforming communities as measured by comprehensive metrics.
Sponsoring a Blue Zones Project in your community offers a clear and active opportunity to deliver on your mission, develop a plan to keep people healthy, integrate existing community efforts, and deepen community trust.
How Blue Zones Project Impacts the Social Determinants of Health
Blue Zones Project helps ensure every community member has the same opportunities to be healthy, even those with significant barriers to better health, by enabling:
- Policy changes to improve healthy food access.
- Built environment enhancements to optimize the opportunity to move naturally.
- Transformation of worksites, schools, faith-based organizations, groceries, restaurants, and other organizations—where the community spends time—so the healthy choice is the easy choice.
Create Measurable Value for Your Workplace and Community
Sponsors, and other organizations in the community, can achieve a designation as a Certified Blue Zones Worksite. A team of experts works with your leadership to deploy a specific and customized plan that drives changes, yielding well-being improvement within the workforce. The program lowers medical cost savings, improves productivity, enhances engagement, and reduces absenteeism.
Receive Return on Investment
Through a proven population health solution, Blue Zones Project aims to improve well-being measurably and statistically, reduce health risks, lower smoking rates, lower average Body Mass Index, increase physical activity, encourage healthy eating, and boost productivity, ultimately lowering per capita healthcare and claims costs.
The momentum has also been shown to attract new businesses to the community, expand the tax base, drive economic development, increase property values, generate new housing starts, and attract grants, gifts, and funding.
