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Blue Zones Project
2012 Well-Being Findings
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Beach Cities Well-Being Climb!
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3.5Beach Cities Well-Being Climb
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Dramatic Well-Being Improvement Results!
“The positive well-being trend in the Beach Cities is both authentic and impressive. The rate at which the community has improved since 2010 far surpasses what has been measured in the large majority of other communities nationwide.
Given the timing of this progress, we believe the Blue Zones Project has been a strong driver of the Beach Cities success.”
—Dan Witters, Principal at Gallup—
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Well-Being Jump by the Numbers!
What it means?• $2.35M h.care savings
What it means?• $6.97M h.care savings
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Overall Well-Being and Life Evaluation
“The Composite score was already really impressively high. We weren’t sure it could go any higher.”
—Dan Witters
Population Well-Being Index Composite Score
Beach Cities Overall 76.4
U.S. Total (MY12) 66.2
California (MY12) 67.3
LA Metro Area (2011) 67.9
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Beach Cities Change Since
2010U.S. Change Since 2010
CA Change Since 2010
OVERALL WBI COMPOSITE SCORE +3.0 0.0 +0.8
LIFE EVALUATION INDEX +8.3 +0.4 +1.7
% Thriving +8.2 +0.4 +1.1
% Suffering -0.3 0.0 -0.6
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Awareness, Support & Participation
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Target Blue Zones Project Participation is 20%:• 10% of the population’s aware and has participated in at least one activity• Many more residents are touched by Blue Zones Project’s environmental
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Beach Cities Overall
Have you heard about the Blue Zones Project? 35%
Do you support the Beach Cities participating in the Blue Zones Project? 79%
Participation in at least one Blue Zones Project activity? 31%
2012 Beach CitiesOverview of Principle Discoveries
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1. Well-being overall remains high in all three Beach Cities, well ahead of the Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area.
2. Well-being is up in the Beach Cities for the second straight year, compared to little well-being change in CA and the U.S. in general.
3. Residents of Manhattan Beach, followed closely by residents of Hermosa Beach, have the highest well-being among the three communities.
4. Life Evaluation, Physical Health, Healthy Behaviors, Work Environment, and Basic Access all rate very strong in the Beach Cities compared to nationwide city comparables.
5. Emotional Health in the Beach Cities is not better than most other cities, and is worse on some metrics.
Well-Being Index Top Line Overview
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6. Greatest well-being strengths include:
• Low obesity, diabetes, and associated chronic conditions
• Very low smoking rates; good exercise and produce consumption
• Safe places to exercise and safe community in general
• Very good oral health behaviors
• Strengths usage and management partnership in the workplace
• Strong city momentum and optimism for future
7. Biggest areas for improvement include:
• Treating one another with respect
• Negative Emotional Health (daily worry and stress)
• Not particularly well-rested on any given day
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8. Physical Health has improved considerably in the Beach Cities since 2010, with lower obesity and fewer residents with disease burden.
9. While stress and treating each other with respect have worsened, most other Emotional Health indicators have improved since 2010.
10. Beach Cities residents are exercising more and eating better than they were in 2010, and at a rate that considerably exceeds what is found in California in general.
11. Since 2010, Work Environment wellbeing has improved in the Beach Cities at about the same rate as in California, driven primarily by an increased use of strengths each day.
12. The Beach Cities have considerable positive livability momentum, driven primarily by a greater sense of safety and improved efforts at good oral health.
Top Line Overview (cont.)
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13. Obesity has come down from 12.3% in 2010 to 10.6% today. This represents a 14% reduction on the percentage of residents who are obese.
14. Still, obesity — even comparatively low obesity — costs the Beach Cities significant amounts of money in incremental healthcare costs and lost productivity annually.
• $14.6 million in incremental healthcare costs per year
• $38.6 million in overall cost to local economy per year, including lost productivity
15. While Redondo residents in the 90278 ZIP code have better overall well-being — driven primarily by Life Evaluation and Work Environment — those in 90277 enjoy better Emotional and Physical Health.
Top Line Overview (cont.)
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Overview of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
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Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index®: A Comprehensive Approach to Measuring Well-being
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Life Evaluation Ranking one’s life today and in the future
Emotional HealthDaily feelings, clinical depression
Physical HealthChronic conditions, obesity, physical pain, cold/flu
Healthy Behaviors Smoking, healthy eating, exercise
Work Environment Using strengths, supervisor relationships
Basic Access Healthcare, community satisfaction, money for basics
Well-Being IndexComposite Score(Average of six domains)
Gallup-Healthways tracks 55 items that comprise six core sub-indexes to provide leaders with a comprehensive metric that covers six key interrelated areas of wellbeing:
• Asks Americans to evaluate their lives by imagining a "ladder" with steps numbered from 0 to 10, where "0" represents the worst possible life and "10" represents the best possible life.
• Evaluation of present life situation
• Anticipated life situation 5 years from now
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Six well-being domains1. Life Evaluation2. Emotional Health3. Physical Health4. Healthy Behavior5. Work Environment6. Basic Access
Life Evaluation – Thriving, Struggling, and Suffering
ThrivingAverage 20% Lower Medical Costs
SufferingAverage 50% HigherMedical Costs
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Overall Well-being and Life Evaluation
Residents of the Beach Cities evaluate their lives very well, particularly in Manhattan Beach. Less than 1% of Redondo Beach residents are “suffering.”
Population Well-Being Index Composite Score
Life Evaluation
Index%
Thriving%
Suffering
Beach Cities Overall 76.4 71.1 72.6 1.4
Manhattan Beach 77.9 75.4 77.5 2.2
Hermosa Beach 77.5 70.4 73.3 2.9
Redondo Beach 75.4 69.3 70.0 0.7
U.S. Total (MY12) 66.2 48.8 52.5 3.7
California (MY12) 67.3 50.4 53.4 3.1
LA Metro Area (2011) 67.9 51.4 54.3 2.9
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Change in Overall Well-being and Life Evaluation
Since 2010, Beach Cities residents’ overall well-being has improved at a rate that far exceeds what’s been measured nationally or in the state of California. Life Evaluation is way up!
Beach Cities Change Since
2010U.S. Change Since 2010
CA Change Since 2010
OVERALL WBI COMPOSITE SCORE +3.0 0.0 +0.8
LIFE EVALUATION INDEX +8.3 +0.4 +1.7
Ladder Today +0.1 -0.1 +0.1
Ladder 5 Years From Now +0.3 +0.1 +0.1
% Thriving +8.2 +0.4 +1.1
% Suffering -0.3 0.0 -0.6
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Physical and Emotional Health, and Healthy Behaviors
Strong Healthy Behaviors feed very good Physical Health in the Beach Cities, but Emotional Health lags back closer to state and national norms.
Well-Being Index Composite Score
Physical Health Index
Healthy Behaviors
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Emotional Health Index
Beach Cities Overall 76.4 83.5 74.1 80.4
Manhattan Beach 77.9 85.6 77.9 81.6
Hermosa Beach 77.5 84.2 74.1 80.0
Redondo Beach 75.4 82.3 72.3 80.0
U.S. Total (MY12) 66.2 76.7 63.4 79.0
California (MY12) 67.3 77.9 66.9 79.3
LA Metro Area (2011) 67.9 79.1 66.7 79.2
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Extra Cost of Obesity in the Beach Cities
Obesity — even comparatively low obesity — costs the Beach Cities a LOT of money in incremental healthcare costs and lost productivity annually. In 2012, 14% fewer Beach Cities residents are obese than in 2010.
% ObeseIncremental Annual Healthcare Costs*
Total Incremental Costs to Local Economy, Including
Lost Productivity**
Beach Cities Overall 10.6 $14.6 million $38.6 million
Manhattan Beach 8.3 $3.1 million $8.25 million
Hermosa Beach 12.4 $2.9 million $7.65 million
Redondo Beach 11.2 $8.6 million $22.7 million
* = Among adults only, based on estimates from NIH-HHS sponsored research
** = Among adults only, based on George Washington University estimates