British Academy, January 2014
- The report seeks to help local policymakers improve the health of their communities by presenting evidence from the social sciences that can help reduce inequalities in health.
- Chapters include:
- Focus resources on improving life chances in early childhood
- Take a ‘health first’ approach to tackling health-related worklessnes
- Use a form of participatory budgeting to make decisions on public health priorities and interventions
- Implement locally based ‘age-friendly environments’ that facilitate improvements in the independence, participation, health and wellbeing of older people
- Make good use of evidence of costeffectiveness before choosing between competing interventions to reduce health inequalities
