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The Health �roject Consortium et al. �99�, Reducing health care costs by reducing the need and demand for medical services. �atson �yatt (2006), Adopting a global healthcare benefits strategy. Employment status can also influence health outcomes. �rofessor Harvey Brenner of the University of North Texas Health Science Centre studied the relationship between heart disease mortality and economic changes, including unemployment, in �est Germany between 1951 and 1989. �rofessor Brenner came to the conclusion that increased unemployment and business failures directly increase heart death rates. The broader benefits from physical health are less often recognised. These benefits include individuals being healthier and at work more, productivity at work being improved and demand and funding pressures on the NHS being reduced 8. As Dame Carol Black recognised in her Government�commissioned review of workplaces and health, in the UK "good health is good business" and a healthy workforce is good for workers themselves and for the economy 9 .