This year’s Director of Public Health Annual Report focuses on work and health. Having good quality work and a decent income are the most important building blocks of our health and wellbeing.
The report states that:
- Having a safe and secure job improves health and wellbeing across people’s lives and protects against social exclusion
- Unemployment is bad for health and wellbeing. It is associated with shorter life expectancy and greater ill health
- Jobs should:
- be stable and offer a decent living wage
- enable people to afford secure housing
- represent opportunities for learning
- offer sufficient flexibility to enable people to balance work and family life
- offer protection from adverse working conditions that can damage health
The report has 12 recommendations, these include the creation of a Good Work Charter and more support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It also urges larger employers to play a greater role in tackling health inequalities.
Previous reports
- Public Health Annual Report 2022-23 - A life less equal
- Public Health Annual Report 2021-22 - A shift in power
- Public Health Annual Report 2020-21 - The health and wider impacts of COVID-19
- Public Health Annual Report 2019-20 - Planetary health
- Public Health Annual Report 2018 - The best start in life
- Public Health Annual Report 2017 - Health starts where we live
- Public Health Annual Report 2015 - Healthier Communities
- Public Health Annual Report 2014 - Mental health and wellbeing
- Public Health Annual Report 2013
