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Vitality has been successfully incentivising people to lead fitter and healthier lives and ultimately transforming the way insurance works, for over 20 years.

6 November 2019 02:01

Ground-breaking global study shows how fitter bodies could lead to a fitter SA economy with potential growth of $500 million (+R7 billion) a year

• Vitality and RAND Europe publish a ground-breaking, global study on the economic impact of physical inactivity • The 23-country study assesses how different physical activity improvement scenarios may affect the economy of countries up to 2050, and shows the significant influence of regular exercise on economic growth, workforce productivity and life expectancy

7 October 2019 15:27

The Vitality Run Series hits the streets of Pretoria in October

This jacaranda season, Vitality is turning Pretoria orange. The popular Discovery Vitality Run Series (VRS) – which has seen thousands of South Africans participate in Johannesburg and Cape Town – is partnering with four of Pretoria’s most iconic road races to get more citizens active on their streets.

Jacaranda FM’s Elana Afrika-Bredenkamp all hyped up at the start of the 2018 Discovery Jacaranda FM Spring Walk

24 July 2019 12:21

LEAVE YOUR WINTER WAYS AND SPRING BACK TO LIFE WITH THE DISCOVERY JACARANDA FM SPRING WALK

Winter will soon be a thing of the past and around the corner there’s a great way to get off the couch, out of those winter onesies and come back to life: the Discovery Jacaranda FM Spring Walk - Gauteng’s favourite way to officially kick off spring.

11 April 2019 13:56

Vitality offers up to 100% cash back on a Huawei Band 2 Pro

Discovery Vitality has launched a new partnership with Huawei in which Vitality members can get up to 100% cash back on a Huawei Band 2 Pro fitness device from Sportsmans Warehouse.

Discovery Vitality and the Reach For A Dream Foundation have joined forces to create another Dream Room for children in hospitals – with the third room opening at Chris Hani Baragwanath Paediatric Oncology Ward in Soweto, Johannesburg today.

9 April 2019 13:32

Vitality members donate rewards to build a Dream Room for kids with cancer

Discovery Vitality and the Reach For A Dream Foundation have joined forces to create another Dream Room for children in hospitals – with the third room opening at Chris Hani Baragwanath Paediatric Oncology Ward in Soweto, Johannesburg today.

28 March 2019 08:58

Vitality members to enjoy a weekend of double HealthyFood cash back at Woolworths, for making healthier choices

For one weekend only – 30 to 31 March 2019 – all Vitality members (with the HealthyFood benefit) will get up to 50% cash back on HealthyFood items at Woolworths stores nationwide.

Elite triathletes take to the water at the 2019 Discovery Triathlon World Cup Cape Town

10 February 2019 20:07

Ueda and Yee take blue carpet victory at the 2019 Discovery Triathlon World Cup Cape Town

The men’s elite race was dominated by twenty-year-old Alex Yee (GBN) with a time of 00:52:04 in first place, and the women’s elite race ended with an exciting eight seconds between Ai Ueda (JPN) and Summer Rappaport (USA).

11 December 2018 10:56

Discovery’s Vitality Open gets more South Africans active and driving better

Discovery Vitality today released the results of its 10-week public campaign, the Vitality Open, which was aimed at getting South Africans to exercise more and improve their driving behaviour.

A ground-breaking new behaviour change study by leading independent research institute RAND Europe, has shown that Vitality incentives, combined with Apple Watch, deliver dramatic and sustained improvements in physical activity levels.

28 November 2018 13:35

Vitality-linked insurers to get 100 million people 20% more active by 2025

Building on the results of the largest behaviour change study on physical activity, Vitality and its global network of insurers have committed to making 100 million people more active over the next seven years, aligned to the World Health Organizations’ Global Action Plan on Physical Activity.

Cape Town leads the pack in healthy living and better driving.

13 September 2018 08:43

The results are in – SA’s most active and best driving city revealed

Cape Town leads the pack in healthy living and better driving.

Bringing the number of countries in which the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance model is available to 18.

17 July 2018 09:23

Sumitomo Life launches Vitality in Japan

Bringing the number of countries in which the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance model is available to 18.

Gareth Friedlander, head of Research and Development for Discovery Life

23 October 2017 10:50

The state of health in South Africa according to Discovery Life’s claim experience 2016

Discovery Life published insights of its life assurance claims from January 2016 to December 2016. A total of 20 247 claims were paid over the period, amounting to R3.2 billion. This brings the total amount that Discovery Life has paid out to date up to R18.7 billion.

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