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Health and wellbeing at work in the United Kingdom
In 2009, the Work Foundation led a partnership with RAND Europe and Aston Business School undertaking the research and analysis to support the Boorman review. RAND Europe led the study on whether health workplace interventions could be useful to mitigate health risk factors and to reduce the work-related costs associated with poor health and wellbeing in British workplaces and the NHS in England. This report, prepared for the Department of Health, presents the main findings of the research.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
Health, wellbeing and work
Chapter Three:
Effectiveness of workplace interventions
Chapter Four:
Identifying good practice
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