A Place Toolkit for Improving Health through Economic Development

This toolkit is intended to support places in England – leaders and practitioners in local government, strategic authorities, local public services and the voluntary and community sector – to deliver health outcomes through local economic development projects and programmes. The toolkit has been developed as part of a project carried out by the Growth and Reform Network with the Health Foundation that includes a comprehensive review of available evidence on health outcomes from place-based economic development from the UK and comparable countries, including the Health Foundation’s Economies for Healthier Lives (EHL) programme. The evidence review is accompanied by a policy report that makes national policy recommendations to enable places to further embed and demonstrate health outcomes.