White paper: Healthy Working Economies

This is the third white paper of the Health at Work Policy Unit focusing on policy changes in health and social care that may have affected the working age population.

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The coalition government has overseen a number of measures to move responsibility for aspects of health and social care and for economic growth away from Whitehall, to localities across England. These measures have included the introduction of Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), moving public health functions into local authorities, and the creation of local enterprise partnerships (LEPs). These changes present considerable potential to influence improvements in the health of the working age population through greater joined up activity at a local level.

This paper seeks to identify to what extent these policy changes are influencing the health of the working age population – both the employed and the unemployed.