This report was funded by Legal & General, who also provided expert input and advice. Editorial control remained with the UCL Institute of Health Equity.

This report examines the evidence of how businesses affect our health, and what they can do to improve health equity. Businesses can affect health, for good or ill, through the pay, hours and conditions of work they provide for employees; through the products, services and investments that they offer customers and clients; and, more widely, by their influence on communities and wider society. The report encourages all businesses to use this influence to promote good health and a more equitable society. [Introduction]