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CIGNA’s Health Awareness Campaign through Mobile Learning lab
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Pearl V
 
By Pearl V
Published on 03/7/2011
 
CIGNA is a global health service. It is an international medical insurance company that provides the medical facilities around the world. It has a broad spectrum of health care services. The headquarters of the company is located at Two Liberty Place in center city, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.

CIGNA’s Health Awareness Campaign through Mobile Learning lab
CIGNA is a global health service. It is an international medical insurance company that provides the medical facilities around the world. It has a broad spectrum of health care services. The headquarters of the company is located at Two Liberty Place in center city, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.

The services of CIGNA include medical, dental, pharmacy, disability, behavioral health insurance facilities. CIGNA has many programs that prevail in the society but recently CIGNA has launched a mobile learning lab. It is an 18 wheel mobile van that is made a type of academy. It goes to every city, every place to reach its customers. The aim of reaching to the customers is to create an awareness of medical conditions among the common people.


The mobile learning lab consists of six sections. First section is of unhealthy truth of living conditions. In this section people are educated about what are the effects of unhealthy living lifestyle. Unhygienic living conditions lead to diseases like obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other health conditions. The next section is where the patients explore the causes of diseases in their community whether it is lack of nutrition, lack of exercise, genetics or other social elements that may influence health. In third section there are electronic machines present in which you put your history and medical problem; it tells you the reasons and solutions for your bad health or disease. So this is very beneficial and quick way to take advices concerning health.

People who do not have much time to wait at clinics can easily approach to it. A CIGNA’s membership card is required for the physical test in this section. Fourth sections is about obesity control program where there is a jacket of 20 pounds and each patient is instructed to wear that jacket so that they will feel how odd it is to be overweight. The importance of balance diet is explained to the patients who are overweight. The fifth section is where an individual has to think what they can do to help others in order to make health conditions good for everyone. Last section is where people post their comments and give suggestions to CIGNA how can they improve their services.

It’s a great effort by CIGNA for the common people to whom they are educating the importance of healthcare, one should be aware of their health problems and should overcome from it, for this social cause they have really came with a great plans and effort and to which we should support and make successful.

The author writes articles on health related CIGNA health tour awareness and CIGNA mobile learning lab.