The Leader’s Guide to Workforce Health Equity

The Health Equity in the Workforce Employer Resource Guide provides employers with an actionable blueprint to address health inequities and positively impact the health of their workforce. With detailed guidance, economic insights and methods to measure progress, the guide gives business leaders the tools they need to build an employee-centric, equity-minded culture of health and well-being.

At the American Heart Association, advancing health equity is central to our mission of driving longer, healthier lives for all. The cost of health inequities in the U.S. continues to rise, with countless lives impacted and an estimated $320 billion in annual health care spending attributed to these disparities.

To improve health and well-being and advance health equity across the nation, we’re looking to the workplace. Research shows that by addressing the drivers of inequities—such as bias and discrimination—employers can improve organizational well-being, increase employee health and productivity, and benefit the bottom line.

The American Heart Association’s Health Equity in the Workforce Employer Resource Guide, developed in collaboration with the Deloitte Health Equity Institute and the SHRM Foundation, draws from the latest workforce health and well-being research and experiential data to provide employers with a comprehensive roadmap for advancing health equity and supporting a healthy, engaged workforce. Combining actionable policies and practices, stories from leading organizations and key research insights, the guide can lay the groundwork for business leaders to measurably impact health equity for their employees.