Linking work and health data - challenges and benefits

This week IER's Professor Chris Warhurst was invited to the annual Society of Occupational Medicine conference in Brighton to speak on a panel about improving work and health data. Along with the other panel members, Chris outlined the legal, ethical and practical challenges in linking existing health and work data but the prize is having this linked data opportunity to generate better understanding of the relationship between health and work, and then identify what causes ill-health at work and develop interventions to create healthier jobs.