The role of businesses and shops in supporting health

Tips and information

• The business and retail sectors provide jobs and services on a massive scale
• The business and retail sector can help to create an environment that improves people’s health including to:
• Be supportive of policies to improve the health and well-being of all
• Offer decent work
• Promote the health of employees and their families
• Give information to employees on the benefits that come with the job such as parental and family leave
• Avoid practices and products that are not good for people’s health, such as tobacco
• If products are bad for health, sellers should give clear advice and warnings
• Come up with new technologies, such as innovations to help a country to improve health
• An example is to switch to clean energy sources and to build sustainable cities