Healthy Choices: Understanding and Improving Your Health Literacy
You may have heard the term “health literacy” and wondered what it meant. Health literacy is an umbrella term that refers to the knowledge, learning, skills and attitudes a person uses to advocate for their own health. Knowing your level of health literacy—and how to improve it—matters because research shows that having higher levels is strongly associated with living a longer, healthier and more independent life.
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Gettin’ Hitched? Better Start Comparing Life Insurance Quotes
While love and marriage often go together like a horse and carriage (as the song goes), the “marriage” aspect of this union often entails much more than just fancy dinners and long walks on the beach. Building a life together often means facing some very…
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Health Equity: Leverage Your Health Literacy For Better Insurance Rates
At Health IQ we’ve identified a new asset class we call “health equity.” Just as homeowners can build equity over time, focusing on diet, exercise, and improving one’s health literacy can build health equity. Our “Health Literacy in the 50 States” report shows those with…
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Announcing The Health Literacy In The 50 States Report
Health IQ is committed to making the 21st century the century of personal health literacy. Just as reading literacy in the 20th century led to breathtaking advances across the globe, health literacy can dramatically improve lives in this century. The Health Literacy In The 50…
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The First Life Insurance Offering to Reward Well-Managed Diabetics Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Health IQ and Protective Life launched a first-of-its-kind life insurance product today that will provide well-managed diabetics living a healthy lifestyle a more cost effective option for protecting their families, while encouraging them to live long, healthy lives. The new life insurance offering was designed…
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Wyoming—Is Health Consciousness a Cowboy State of Mind?
The public-policy party line dividing blue and red states is general knowledge. Democratic—aka blue—states tend to allocate more money to social services and health care. It’s no surprise that scrappy Vermont, home of independent Bernie Sanders, tops the list of “most health conscious states.” But…
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