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Healthy places, prosperous lives
www.ippr.org/articles/healthy-places-prosperous-lives
The UK is getting poorer and sicker, and this trend is not equal across the country. Poorer and sicker areas are getting poorer and sicker the most quickly.
To help develop a path forward, IPPR held a series of multi-day deliberative workshops across the country - each exploring people’s understanding of health, its relationship with prosperity, and priorities for change.
Based on these priorities, we have developed a new framework: ‘Seven for Seven’ – or seven foundations for seven healthy life years.
For each of our foundations, this report identifies examples of transformative place-level interventions, either in the UK or internationally, which are already making a difference. We also recommend the creation of Health and Prosperity Improvement Zones (HAPI), targeted at places where need is highest.
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Don’t miss our upcoming webinar to discuss the third interim report of our Commission on Health and Prosperity, Healthy Places, Prosperous Lives.
On Monday 19th February, from 9.00 - 10.15am, we will be joined by Andy Burnham, mayor for Greater Manchester, the Rt Hon Sir Norman Lamb, former minister for care and support, Professor Donna Hall CBE, former chair of the NHS and chair of New Local, and Efua Poku-Amanfo, lead author of the report and research fellow at IPPR, to discuss the stark divide in health and wealth throughout the UK.
Poorer and sicker areas are getting poorer and sicker quicker. The UK now has among the largest health inequalities of any advanced economy, with one in every four people in England and Wales who are economically inactive living in the unhealthiest 50 local authorities.
The concerning ‘double injustice’ of areas suffering high levels of sickness and low levels of economic activity are exacerbated by also being more likely to experience worse levels of productivity, material deprivation, child poverty, unemployment and household income.
Our policy is focused on a simple premise: that if everywhere was as healthy as Wokingham, the UK would be the healthiest and most equal country in the world. Our focus is on giving places, local leaders and communities the tools to deliver on this premise.
www.ippr.org/articles/healthy-places-prosperous-lives
The UK is getting poorer and sicker, and this trend is not equal across the country. Poorer and sicker areas are getting poorer and sicker the most quickly.
To help develop a path forward, IPPR held a series of multi-day deliberative workshops across the country - each exploring people’s understanding of health, its relationship with prosperity, and priorities for change.
Based on these priorities, we have developed a new framework: ‘Seven for Seven’ – or seven foundations for seven healthy life years.
For each of our foundations, this report identifies examples of transformative place-level interventions, either in the UK or internationally, which are already making a difference. We also recommend the creation of Health and Prosperity Improvement Zones (HAPI), targeted at places where need is highest.
_________________________________________________
Don’t miss our upcoming webinar to discuss the third interim report of our Commission on Health and Prosperity, Healthy Places, Prosperous Lives.
On Monday 19th February, from 9.00 - 10.15am, we will be joined by Andy Burnham, mayor for Greater Manchester, the Rt Hon Sir Norman Lamb, former minister for care and support, Professor Donna Hall CBE, former chair of the NHS and chair of New Local, and Efua Poku-Amanfo, lead author of the report and research fellow at IPPR, to discuss the stark divide in health and wealth throughout the UK.
Poorer and sicker areas are getting poorer and sicker quicker. The UK now has among the largest health inequalities of any advanced economy, with one in every four people in England and Wales who are economically inactive living in the unhealthiest 50 local authorities.
The concerning ‘double injustice’ of areas suffering high levels of sickness and low levels of economic activity are exacerbated by also being more likely to experience worse levels of productivity, material deprivation, child poverty, unemployment and household income.
Our policy is focused on a simple premise: that if everywhere was as healthy as Wokingham, the UK would be the healthiest and most equal country in the world. Our focus is on giving places, local leaders and communities the tools to deliver on this premise.