an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . february 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message vielife type limited company industry health and well being founded 1989 headquarters london city key people mike beason managing director products health risk assessment lifestyle management programmes eap parent cigna website www.vielife.com vielife is a provider of contents 1 history 2 operations 3 products and services 4 research 5 awards 6 references 7 external links history edit vielife started as part of the institut biomedical sports et vie ibsv which was set up in france in 1989 by dr francois duforez . 1 bertrand faure beaulieu acquired a majority stake in 1998 and vielife was launched in london in 2000 . duforez began his work studying the performance of french fighter pilots . he then shifted his attention to other high performance individuals formula 1 drivers vend e globe sailors and leading ceos . from this work vielife was born providing personalised information on how to improve performance by focusing on sleep patterns and habits stress management nutrition and physical activity . citation needed the focus on these four areas is still the cornerstone of vielife s today . in 2006 vielife acquired businesshealth uk ltd a uk based health and wellbeing consultancy . 2 later that year vielife was acquired by the international insurance provider cigna ; 3 following the acquisition vielife continues to operate as an independent stand alone business . operations edit the vielife head office is based in london uk with additional offices in the us . products and services edit these include health and wellbeing assessment an overall health risk assessment that measures an individual s health and wellbeing status and provides a benchmark measurement for employers and organisations based on aggregated anonymised data . lifestyle management programmes focusing on stress sleep nutrition physical activity and smoking cessation health management programmes focusing on weight loss and on depression management assessments focusing specifically on stress sleep nutrition physical activity and musculoskeletal health telephone based eap employee assistance programmes and health coaching health and wellbeing consultancy online services are available across the globe in 22 different languages . research edit vielife has done research into the effect of health promotion on employee health risks and work productivity ; 4 the development of a corporate health risk measurement tool ; 5 and the effect of office lighting on employee well being and work performance . 6 awards edit in 2010 vielife was awarded certification from the national committee for quality assurance ncqa for its health improvement products . 7 the vielife health risk assessment received a two year re certification and a new two year certification was awarded for its self management tools . 8 references edit log on to life the guardian 18 march 2004 . vielife acquires business health . employee benefits 31 may 2006 . cigna acquires vielife through its care allies operating unit 13 december 2006 . impact of a health promotion program on employee health risks and work productivity . mills pr kessler rc cooper j sullivan s. american journal of health promotion . 2007 ; 22 no. 1 p45 53 . the development of a new corporate specific health risk measurement instrument and its use in investigating the relationship between health and well being and employee productivity . mills pr . environmental health . 2005 ; 4 1 9 the effect of high correlated colour temperature office lighting on employee wellbeing and work performance . mills pr tomkins sc schlangen lj . j circadian . rhythms . 2007 ; 5 2 . ncqa certifies vielife health assessment schemes . employee benefits talk 24 may 2010 . health information products certification . national committee for quality assurance . retrieved 26 august 2010 . http www.employeebenefits.co.uk benefits staff motivation benefits help staff to fulfil new years resolutions 100776 . article external links edit vielife retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vielife & oldid 704566754 categories health care companies of the united kingdomhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from february 2012all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 february 2016 at 06 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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