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The Gallup-Healthways Partnership

In a historic partnership for American health transformation, Gallup and Healthways have developed a new national measure of well-being that provides leaders with the information they need to create solutions for making Americans healthier.

Gallup and Healthways initiated a 25-year partnership on January 2, 2008, merging decades of clinical research and development expertise, health leadership, and behavioral economics research to track and understand the key factors that drive well-being.

The Gallup-Healthways collaboration draws on a team of individuals with diverse backgrounds and high-level achievements including authors of best-selling books on employee engagement and organizational psychology; a Nobel Prize winner in economic sciences whose research pioneered behavioral economics; leaders specializing in health support interventions ; and the inventor of an economic model that establishes a direct correlation between human nature in the workplace, employee engagement and business outcomes.

The Well-Being Index

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index provides an in-depth, real-time view of Americans' well-being, giving governments, communities, employers, and health plans unmatched insight into the health of their populations. The Well-Being Index is an average of six sub-indexes: Life Evaluation, Physical Health, Emotional Health, Healthy Behavior, Work Environment, and Basic Access.

Gallup and Healthways are interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day, nearly 350 days a year. Respondents are asked a series of 56 questions related to their health and well-being.

For a complete overview of the Well-Being Index please see the methodology section.