Climbing ladders: From treatment to prevention (2025)
The building blocks of health and wellbeing
To understand the health gap, we need to recognise the role the building blocks of health and wellbeing play in building healthy communities. Our health and wellbeing are shaped by the world around us. Building a healthy community is like constructing a sturdy building.10 To be healthy we need the right building blocks in place. Building blocks like good jobs, safe homes and neighbourhoods, enough money to support a healthy standard of living, high quality and easy-to-access services, supportive friends, and families and more.
Building blocks that are weak, missing, or broken result in poor health and health inequalities.
