Healthy industry, prosperous economy

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If we want both health and prosperity, then public health and economic strategy need to work in lockstep – but this is not the case today.

While there is a tendency in health policy to focus on what government can do for health through public service delivery, which is vitally important, there is huge health-creating potential for businesses, which employ most UK workers and have far greater investment power than the state.

Better health is in UK businesses’ self-interest. It's time for the state and industry to work together on delivering better health and, in turn, a stronger economy. In this report, we propose a new approach – what we call ‘health in all industries’ – to harmonise public health and industrial policy.

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