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Resources

This page lists Health, Work and Well-being publications.

We have listed other websites, tools and resources separately.

• Other websites, tools and resources

Key documents

Health, work and well-being: Baseline indicators report

This report sets out the baseline data on a set of health, work and well-being key indicators against which future progress will be monitored.

• Health, work and well-being: Baseline indicators report (185KB)

We published this progress update report on 19 December 2011.

• December 2011 – Indicators progress update report (146KB)

Improving health and work: changing lives

The Policy Response to Dame Carol Black’s Review of the health of Britain’s working age population – 2008.

• Improving health and work: changing lives (1.5MB)
• Large print – Improving health and work: changing lives (570KB)
• Welsh – executive summary (399KB)

Carol Black’s review

The review of the health of Britain’s working age population – 2008.

• Working for a healthier tomorrow – a comprehensive review of work and health (3MB)
• Summary of the evidence submitted (543KB)
• Welsh Executive summary – Gweithio i sicrhau dyfodol iachach – Crynodeb Gweithredol (745KB)

Health, work and well-being – Caring for our future

A strategy for the health and well-being of working age people (2005).

• Health, work and well-being – Caring for our future (237KB)

Discussion events

In November 2007 we met with health practitioners and businesses around the UK to identify ways to improve people’s health and help more people who develop health problems to remain in or quickly return to work.

• Fit for Work Service Programme of Piloting – Information workshop – Edinburgh 16 March 2009 (1.9MB)

Commissioned research

As part of the Black Review, we commissioned research and analysis to help build the necessary evidence base.

The views expressed in these publications are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Carol Black, Health, Work and Well-being, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department of Health, the Health and Safety Executive, the Scottish Executive or the Welsh Assembly Government.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Report

Considers the wider business and economic case for employers to invest in staff wellness programmes.

• Building the case for wellness (996KB)

The Royal College of Psychiatrists Report

Reviews the evidence of mental health and work.

• Mental Health and Work (1.3MB)

Peninsula Medical School Report

Undertakes a literature review of the evidence base for early intervention in sickness absence.

• Avoiding long-term incapacity for work: Developing an early intervention in primary care (1.8MB)

Other documents

• Achieving well-being at work (5 pages) (593KB)
• Advising Patients About Work (GP leaflet) (8 pages) (185KB)
• Advising patients about work (summary) (1 page) (58KB)
• Concepts of rehabilitation for the management of common health problems Waddell and Burton (101 pages) (658KB)
• Fit for Work Service: Memorandum of Information (MOI) (22 pages) (274KB)
• Healthcare Professionals' Consensus Statement (2 pages) (44KB)
• Healthy People = Healthy Profits (48 pages) (2.4MB)
• Is work good for your health and well-being? Waddell and Burton (257 pages) (1.2MB)
• Is work good for your health and well-being? (Summary) Waddell and Burton (8 pages) (316KB)
• Vocational rehabilitation: What works, for whom, and when? Waddell, Burton and Kendall (8MB)
• Work and Health – Changing how we think about common health problems (8 pages) (617KB)
• Working our way to better mental health: a framework for action (106 pages) (1.6MB)