Friday 30 June 2017

Where’s policy action needed for a healthier population? Learning from international experience

Where’s policy action needed for a healthier population? Learning from international experience If you were to choose a Government department you would run for a day to improve the health of the population, which would it be?

You might instinctively choose the department of health. But since access to healthcare accounts for as little as 10% of a population’s health and wellbeing, it is unlikely to be your best choice. Instead, because it is the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age that contribute in large part to our prospects of a healthy life, you might be better off with HM Treasury, the department for education, or the department for work and pensions, perhaps.

Yet there is a lot less attention on the policy action needed outside the health sector to create better health and wellbeing by influencing the social determinants of health – for example, our access to adequate income, good education and work, decent homes and strong social relationships. The Health Foundation

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