City officials will launch an initiative next week focused on the region a healthier place to live.
Earlier this year, Lodi was chosen as an area in which a team of blue zones will assess the forces, needs and challenges that its residents are faced as part of the Blue Zones pilot.
Blue zones, bought by Adventist Health in 2020, is the name and the brand used to describe the most life cultures in the world and the common characteristics that explain their longevity. Evaluation activities will include community meetings, discussion groups with local residents and stakeholders and an assessment of community preparation.
On Tuesday, the mayor Cameron Bregman and other members of the municipal council will visit locations such as the Adventists Lodi Memorial and the East Lodi clinic of community medical centers with representatives of the blue zone and other partners of the county agencies.
The other sites of sites include the secondary schools of Lodi and Tokay, Hotel Wine & Roses, Hale Park, The Loel Center and Pacific Coast Producers, among others.
County personnel will also organize commitment sessions with community stakeholders who will include discussion groups and individual interviews from March 4 to 6.
The pilot program is to integrate generalized improvements in well-being, reductions in health care costs and an improvement in economic vitality in the region, according to county health officials. San Joaquin County spokesperson Hilary Crowley said the pilot is about $ 100,000, with around $ 70,000 paid by San Joaquin County Public Health Services.
After next week’s visit, the Blue Zones team will create a policies transformation plan that will supplement the assessment of community health health needs of San Joaquin and the community health improvement plan.
The term “blue zones” was invented for the first time by the co -founder of Blue, Dan Buettner, an explorer and journalist of the National Geographic, during an exploratory project, he led in 2004. After an expedition of 2000 to investigate the longevity in Okinawa, in Japan, he undertook to explore other regions of the world where people lived not only but appreciated a high quality of life when they grew up in the world.
The concept of zones comes from the co-founders of demographic work Gianni PES and Michel Poulain described in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology which identified Sardinia, in Italy, like the region with the highest concentration of male centennials.
PES and Poulain drew concentric blue circles on a map highlighting the villages of extreme longevity and began to designate the areas inside the circles as blue areas. Buettner, PES and Poulain have identified other hot dots of longevity in the world, notably Ikaria, Greece and Nicoya, Costa Rica.
Loma Linda, an Adventist community located in the county of Riverside, is the only blue zone in the United States. Residents of the city in southern California would live up to a more decade, and a large part of their longevity can be attributed to vegetarianism and regular exercise, according to the Buettner team. In addition, Adventists do not smoke or drink alcohol.
The Buettner team found that Adventists encourage a “well -balanced diet” which includes nuts, fruits and legumes, low in sugar, salt www.bluezones.com.