Applying a Health Lens to Business
2016
This National Academies report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop on applying a health lens to the role and potential of businesses in improving economic well-being and community health outcomes. Organized by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Population Health Improvement in 2015, participants at the workshop explored what businesses can offer the movement to improve population health and areas of potential, as well as models for how businesses can impact the determinants of health, and developed a platform for discussing how to promote and support health in all business practices, policies, and investments.
The 2015 workshop was a follow-up to one organized by the IOM in 2013 to discuss opportunities to foster a health-in-all-policies approach in non-health sectors such as housing, transportation, defense, education, and others. Much of the discussion at the first workshop focused on public-sector organizations, and roundtable members saw the need for further discussion of the role of the private sector, both as stakeholder and partner.
Applying a Health Lens to Business
Source:
Applying a Health Lens to Business Practices, Policies, and Investments: Workshop Summary. The National Academies Press 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/21842.