Policy Resources

Know the population and use community centred approaches

the BMJ - Health for All: Transforming economies to deliver what matters

Health Equity North - Health Equity North 2023

IPPR - Healthy people, prosperous lives

Video - Institute of Health Equity

Joseph Rowntree Foundation - An inclusive growth monitor for measuring the relationship between poverty and growth

ONS - Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness, UK: 2019 to 2023


Link the economy to the place

CLES - A light in the Dark

New Economic Foundations - THE NATIONAL LIVING INCOME

Greater Manchester Combing Authority - Working Well

Andy Turner - Addressing the causes of the causes through a wellbeing economy

Northern Health Science Alliance - Health for Wealth

Evergreen Cooperatives - Evergreen Cooperatives Launch The Fund for Employee Ownership

Locality - Creating health and wealth by stealth

New Economic Foundations - THE NATIONAL LIVING INCOME

Greater Manchester Combing Authority  - Working Well

Scottish Land and Estates - The Contribution of Rural Estates to Scotland’s Wellbeing Economy

City of Doncaster Council, LGA - Shaping Stainforth

Wakefield Council - Wakefield District Economic Wellbeing Strategy

CLES - The CLES manifesto for local economies, sets out our vision for how the next government should create local economies that serve the UK’s people, places and the planet.

Make the most off local assets

PHE & Leeds Beckitt University - A guide to community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing

Local Government Association  - Inclusive economies and healthy futures: Supporting place-based action to reduce health inequalities

Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network, the NHS Confederation and Yorkshire Universities - Levelling Up Yorkshire and Humber: health as the new wealth post-COVID

Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber  - Empowering local places for health and prosperity: new perspectives from the Yorkshire and Humber

Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) - The Manifesto for Local Economies

The Lancet - The mental health and wellbeing impact of a Community Wealth Building programme in England: a difference-indifferences stud

NHS Confederation - Unlocking the NHS’s social and economic potential: creating a productive system

VicHealth - A toolkit to progress wellbeing economy approaches in Australia

Understand and use strategic levers

Health Foundation - Creating wealth and health

Wellbeing Alliance - Designing Public Policy

Health Equity North  - Health Equity North launch event

World Health Organisation - Health in the well-being economy

IPPR - Healthy people, prosperous lives: The first interim report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity

CLES - Implementation plan for Community Wealth Building

PHE / OHID - Inclusive and sustainable economies: leaving no-one behind

BMJ - Knowing the goal: an inclusive economy that can address the public health challenges of our time

New Economics Foundation - National Living Income

CLES - Own the future

Scottish Government and Glasgow Population Health Centre - Public Health Scotland What is Power

Legatum - The Legatum Prosperity Index

Happier Lives Institute - To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Measuring non-health, non-pecuniary benefits using subjective wellbeing

Scottish Government  - Wellbeing economy toolkit: supporting place based economic strategy and policy development

collective wellbeing Cranegie UK - The Shared Ingredients for a Wellbeing Economy

Poverty Strategy Commission - Interim Report launch: A new framework for tackling poverty

Understand the impact of economics on future generations

City of Doncaster Council - Doncaster Delivering Together

ONS - Health Index for England

NHS Confederation, Local Government Association, NHS England and NHS Improvement and Metro Dynamics - National Inclusive and Sustainable Economies Network

ONS - Subnational indicators explorer

NEF - Together we can change the rules

Happiness Research Institute - Towards a Wellbeing Economy

Institute of Health Equity  - Working well: Delivering better health outcomes for hidden workers

Inclusive Growth Leeds - The Leeds Social Progress Index

UCL Partners - UCL Partners Health Innovation

Beyond-GDP - UN Beyond-GDP Process