Vitality is the capacity to pursue life with health, strength, and energy. Vitality conveys an active approach to living that can be improved, and by increasing the understanding of vitality through the lens of whole-person health, we can open doors to small and large improvements to well-being.
Our appreciation for vitality’s importance led to the creation of Evernorth’s Vitality Index. The Evernorth Vitality Index allows us to identify opportunities across dimensions of health to enhance personal vitality, and it enables us to better understand how individuals living with disease or suboptimal personal, financial, or environmental conditions can live a happy and healthy lifestyle.
Today, the Vitality Index is used for research purposes as Evernorth continues to explore and redefine the future of health. As a next generation measure of whole-person health, future applications are profound and far-reaching. The Vitality Index can be utilized to track vitality levels over time, identify disparities and provide a path to understand and influence what enhances vitality for an individual or a population. The Evernorth Vitality Index can serve as a reliable measure of whole-person health and could be applied to employer populations to inform investments in workforce health and engagement strategies.