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Businesses and employers play an important role in shaping health and health equity through their hiring and employment practices, their products and services, their impact on the environment, and their interactions with and activities in communities. The last 2.5 years have cast in sharp relief the relationships between work and health, businesses and communities, and this workshop examined and showcased practices, data, policies, and partnerships that position businesses to play important roles in helping to improve health and health equity.
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The Role of Business in Improving Health and Health Equity: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
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·2024
The National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a public workshop in December 2022 aimed at exploring the role of businesses in building healthy communities through their relationships with their workers, investments, and health-sector partnerships. Speakers also considered...
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