Evidence shows that where you live has as much influence over whether you get sick as how you live.

• Community forces – such as social conditions, economic opportunity, food and transportation systems – account for at least 50 percent of disease and death.
• Health and economic conditions continue to deteriorate in America.
• The U.S. spends more than $2 trillion a year on health care, yet many of the disease states we try to combat continue to escalate
  • diabetes
  • obesity
  • hypertension

The time is now to explore the deep causes of illness and disease that drive people into the care system in the first place. CIGNA's Communities of Health initiative is bringing people together in a way that generates community awareness and action – one zip code at a time.