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Welcome!
The Healthy Encores Lifestyle Festival is scheduled for
July 18 - 21, 2013 in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands. Its national campaign encourages visitors from all parts of the United States as well as the Caribbean to come to the Beautiful U.S. Virgin Islands to enjoy a weekend of activities focusing on health, wealth and education combined with musical entertainment. Beach parties, shopping, and island tours are also included in the festival activities. The goal of the Lifestyle Festival and its Healthy Encores is to promote healthy lifestyles in conjunction with a music festival as a motivational tool. The Healthy Encores Lifestyle Festival will improve and transform the lives of the entire U.S. Virgin Islands community. Additionally, it will increase the visibility of the U.S. Virgin Islands as a premier travel destination worldwide. We will use the Lifestyle Festival to attract people to our beautiful Virgin Islands where they will be entertained while receiving profound information on health. |
Our Current Sponsors |
Health Awareness Day |
Lifestyle Festival Concert
Past Artists
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The 10th Annual Lifestyle FestivalThe Healthy Encores Lifestyle Festival is four days of family fun centered on the complete health of the community. The festival has a free “Health Awareness Day”, a day filled with interactive healthcare awareness information, guest appearances, local recording artist’s performances and door prizes. Some features of the “Health Awareness Day” are: Healthy Cooking, Free Health Screening and Monitoring Demonstration, Managing Your Health, Eye Health, Smoking Cessation Clinic, Children Activities, Exercise Workshop, Exhibitors and Giveaways.
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History of Healthy EncoresHealthy EncoresTM is a non-profit organization that provides on-going health information, awareness and advocacy initiatives that focus on reducing health disparities. The series takes place in picturesque St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on July 18–21, 2013. Healthy EncoresTM presents a unique opportunity for the healthcare and corporate communities to present information and issues to various diverse communities in an effort to both raise health awareness and impact behaviors in historically “at risk” populations.While Healthy EncoresTM will spotlight diabetes awareness, management and prevention, it will also address other health disparities.
Healthy EncoresTM is supported by the community and Congresswoman Donna Christensen. She is very passionate about this event; as a member of the Health Committee in the House of Congress. Congresswoman Christensen also participates at the event each year utilizing her medical expertise. |
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Health Fair Facts
The mission is to provide clear health information to the community and to create an environment of meaningful dialogue that will have a positive impact on both the community and the individual level. We are truly the festival that cares about the health of the community.
Event Target:
St Croix: 50,601
- St. John: 4,170
- St. Thomas: 51,634
- 75% Women
- 25% Men
- Ages 25-64
- Cancer is a chronic disease that is the second leading cause of death in both the United States and the Virgin Islands. The Cancer Facts and Figures 2010 from the American Cancer Society states, “cancer accounts for one in every five deaths in the United States, and one in every three Americans alive today will eventually develop cancer.” The mortality data in the Virgin Islands mirror national trends, with Breast and Prostate cancers being the most common for female and male deaths due to cancer.
- Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) do not exist in the Virgin Islands. Medicaid managed care is also non-existent in the territory. The Government of the Virgin Islands, as the largest employer, offers health insurance coverage to its employees. Health insurance fees and increased costs of health insurance continue to be a barrier for low-income families.
- Diabetes in the Virgin Islands affects more Black and Hispanic residents and is more common in older adults and persons with lower education and income levels.
- Heart disease is the number one leading cause of death to Virgin Islanders.
- Limitations in access to care extend beyond basic causes, such as a shortage of health care providers (prevalent in the Virgin Islands), or a lack of facilities. Individuals also may lack a usual source of care or may face other barriers to receiving services, such as financial barriers (having no health insurance or being underinsured), and personal barriers (sexual orientation, cultural differences, language differences, not knowing what to do, or environmental challenges for people with disabilities).
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