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Discovery Health's Vitality Programme

Discovery Health, South Africa's largest private health insurer with over 2.5 million beneficiaries, developed a successful incentivized health promotion programme called "Vitality", which includes health risk assessments, subsidized gym memberships and smoking cessation or weight loss programmes with many incentives (including cash back on purchases of healthy foods).

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