Impact, Our Point of View

Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices for Better Health

One year ago today, John Hancock and Vitality embarked on a collaboration to create a whole new type of life insurance: a shared value approach whereby financial benefits from individuals living healthier and longer lives can be reinvested to the benefit of the insurer and the customer. Today, John Hancock Vitality announces the launch of...

Adriana Selwyn | Apr 6, 2016
environment, greenhouse gas emissions, HealthyFood, John Hancock USA, John Hancock Vitality, Nutrition, planetary health, Rockefeller Foundation, shared value insurance, South Africa, sustainability, The Lancet, USA, water use

Impact, New Research, Our Point of View

Workplace Health Programs Linked to Improved Stock Performance

New research has just been published demonstrating that companies with best in class workplace health programs tend to outperform their peers in terms of stock performance. The key take-away is that investing in evidence-based employee health programs is a proxy for other highly effective business practices and great governance. Three studies published by Ray Fabius,...

Shahnaz Radjy and Derek Yach | Jan 8, 2016
ACOEM, C. Everett Koop Award, CEOs, Davos, employee health, evidence-based, financial performance, good governance, health metrics, HERO, investing in health, JOEM, Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Michael O'Donnell, Ray Fabius, reporting on health, Ron Goetzel, Ron Loeppke, South Africa, stock performance, USA, workplace health, World Economic Forum