Some key social determinants of health are: our education and employment opportunities; our housing; our social networks; and where we live and the extent it facilitates exercise, a good diet and social connection. The Health Foundation’s programme of work on healthy lives complements our portfolio of work to improve health care delivery, and draws on our experience of making change happen in complex systems.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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A communications toolkit showing people how to tell a more powerful story about health.
Jennie Leggat highlights the impacts of local government underfunding on people’s health and highlights how using Health Impact Assessment could help to minimise these.
We put a call out to people with an interest, expertise and/or experience in improving health and reducing inequalities, to be part of our steering group for a new programme of work in Scotland.
Anna Gazzillo looks at how falling back on or struggling to cope with debt during the cost-of-living crisis can pose a risk to people’s health – and how government can support future financial resilie...
The Health Foundation will be exhibiting at the NHS Providers annual conference and exhibition 2023 on 14–15 November 2023.
In the fourth REAL Challenge annual lecture, Professor Dame Diane Coyle explored some of the key drivers of UK healthcare productivity and discussed what we might hope the NHS will look like when it r...
Ann Hagell, from the Association for Young People’s Health, highlights efforts to improve food security among young people in Newham.
Our briefing highlights actions government and employers can take to reduce the barriers to work for people in ill health.
We spoke to Charles Kwaku-Odoi, CEO of the Caribbean and African Health Network. He leads the work in eradicating the health inequalities experienced by black people in the UK, and explains the import...
The Health Foundation will be exhibiting at the Solace Summit 2023 event in Birmingham on 17-19 October 2023.
Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food are the three leading causes of preventable death and ill health in England. This briefing sets out a framework to support local authorities to take ambitious popul...
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