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Working Age Population – Review ‘Working For A Healthier Tomorrow’ & Report ‘Building The Case For Wellness’ Released

28 April 2008

The Health, Work, Wellbeing – Working For Health Initiative (a cross government initiative established in 2005) have recently released two documents which will be of interest to people working to improve the health of people of working age, including those in midlife.

‘Working For A Healthier Tomorrow’ is a review by Dame Carol Black (March, 2008) which outlines the importance to everyone of improving the health of the working age population, not just people in work but also those looking to return to work after illness, people currently out of work and society as a whole. It looks to establish a new vision for health and work in Britain based around 3 key principles:

Prevention of illness and promotion of health and wellbeing.
Early interventions for those who develop a health condition.
An improvement in the health of those out of work – so that everyone with the potential to work has the support they need to do so.

In setting the vision the review also looks at how the health of the working age population can be measured and baselines established.

This document is also complemented by a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers ‘Building The Case For Wellness’ (Feb, 2008) which reviews the effect of previous wellness programmes across a range of organisations and helps put forward the wider business case for workplace based programmes and the economic case for UK employers. The report also outlines important principles for the planning, delivery and management of wellness programmes.

Both of these reports can be downloaded, along with a range of other resources and information from the Working For Health website.