Podcast: PHI’s Building H Measures Companies’ Impact on Consumer Wellbeing
In this podcast episode, PHI’s Thomas Goetz shares how the Building H Index can help keep companies accountable for their impact on America’s health.
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Many of America’s favorite products are designed to maximize profits at the expense of our health. PHI’s Thomas Goetz, co-founder of PHI’s Building H, joins The Heart of Healthcare podcast to share how their Building H Index can help keep corporations accountable and how changing company behavior may be easier than changing consumer habits.
This podcast covers:
- Why the structure of modern society makes healthy choices nearly impossible for most Americans
- How Building H’s new corporate health index is measuring companies’ impact on consumer wellbeing
- The surprising companies getting health right, from Pokemon Go to sustainable housing developers
- Why health metrics should be included in ESG frameworks and corporate KPIs
- The challenge of aligning corporate profits with positive health outcomes
- How small product changes can drive meaningful population health improvements
- Why traditional public health approaches need reinvention for today’s challenges
- The role of public benefit corporations in building health-first businesses
I think there has to be a structure where profits and healthy outcomes can be aligned. And what I love about what Building H is doing with its index is we're not just gonna shame you, we're gonna help you find a way to align those [key performance indicators], those [objectives and key results], as you said, in a way that shows, yes, we can make a ton of money here and have good downstream health outcomes.Thomas Goetz
Originally published by The Heart of Healthcare
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