Our Greatest Asset: final report on the commission on health and prosperity (summary)

This summary report by Chris Thomas et al. explores three years of analysis, qualitative work, commissioner debate and stakeholder engagement, to argue the need to move from a sickness model to a health creation (whole society) system to enable better health as a route to prosperity. The paper explores the five founding principles of health creation in a UK context: work that creates health; healthy industrial strategy; a health guarantee at the start of life; the foundations of health in every neighbourhood; and proactive healthcare through the NHS, with useful infographics.