Measuring Health of the Organisation- and the Health of the Nation
B4H and the CBI ran two round tables at Workforce Wellbeing Live, focussed on ‘Measuring the Health of the Organisation’. Senior industry leaders came together to share how they capture ‘health-relevant data’ that resides in their businesses that could inform the ‘health of the organisation’ but also to help companies improve and benchmark themselves on their contribution to employee health.
The Positive Disruptive Power Of Business To Enhance Health
The business community has immense power to drive positive change and impact. The total value of pension funds invested in the U.K. each year is about the same size as the U.K. economy and the total assets under management is more than double that, so the power of investing is huge.
Health and Safety for the 21st century
Broadening the concept of ‘health and safety’ could see companies step up on worker health, and a ‘polluter pays’ approach to consumer health could see companies factor in externalities.
Levelling Up Health: Why Five More Years of Healthy Life is a Win-Win for Business and Society
In a radical new report Levelling Up Health a cross-party group has envisaged a major role for business in contributing to the nation’s health. The twin threats of climate change and COVID-19 have already focused minds on the clear links between health and economic resilience. But while vaccinations and global warming grab the headlines, we mustn’t lose sight of another powerful, global macro trend: increasing life expectancy.
Health is Wealth- Why we need to get H (Health) into ESG
Why do we need ‘H’ in ESG? The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how poor health and health inequalities undermine resilience within populations and impede economic development. As a result, health is increasingly seen as important as climate, and indeed both are linked. We need a Business Index that can measure ESHG.
We are encouraging everyone to get involved in the design of this Business Index for companies, employers and investors to measure contributions to health (now and into the future), as a prelude to a wider risk management framework by filling in the form here ideally by close of play 14 May. The feedback will inform a series of round tables we will be holding later in May and June 2021, and to which survey contributors will be invited.
This Index will help to identify ‘commercial determinants of health’ in their widest sense-, share best practice, and facilitate generation of knowledge to understand how business can improve population health. The approach will be cross-sectoral and the working model will encourage smaller employers as well as larger businesses to be represented.