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Working for a healthier tomorrow: Dame Carol Black's Review of the health of Britain's working age population
— presented to the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | | Author(s) | Carol Black |
| Corporate Author | Review of the Health of Britain's Working Age Population, Health, Work and Well-being Programme; Department for Work and Pensions (DWP); Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | TSO, London, 17 March 2008 |
| Pages | 125 pp |
| Source | TSO, PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN. www.tsoshop.co.uk Accessible online at: www.workingforhealth.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Employment ; Health [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Health services ; Employees ; Reports. |
| Annotation | The National Director for Health and Work, Dame Carol Black, calls for urgent and comprehensive reform, and proposes radical changes to work-related health services making them available to all. While recognising that work is good for most people's long-term health, this review found that ill health is costing the country £100 billion a year - enough to run the entire NHS. We are living longer, but this is not being accompanied by a similar improvement in self-reported health status. The workplace has a key role in promoting health and well being, and there is a need for changes in perceptions of fitness for work and in attitudes to physical and mental ill health and disability. A new Fit for Work service is proposed, to prevent short-term sickness absence from becoming long-term absence, and for helping workless people who have developed undiagnosed or unsupported health conditions. Developing professional expertise for working age health is required - an integrated approach that includes occupational health and vocational rehabilitation in mainstream healthcare. Government, healthcare professionals, employers, trade unions and all with an interest in the health of the working age population should adopt the approaches recommended in this review. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080317003 B |
| Classmark | GC: WJ: CC: D: L: WK: 6K |
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