It wouldn't stray into public health and the wider determinants of health.
Moreover, whilst the discourse around HWBs is increasingly about "health and wellbeing", and about the wider determinants of these within the community, the committee continues to view the world through the old lens of service boundaries.
When it comes to those wider determinants of health both central and local government have to take responsibility for age friendly housing, communities fit and safe for people to grow old in, fuel poverty, adequate pension settlements, education, decent workplace conditions and adequate pension provision.
The government should take a wide view in assessing health inequalities and support not just NHS efforts but programmes that address the wider determinants of health, she says.The highest priority, Sir Michael suggests, is to ensure that every child has a good start in life by concentrating on poorer children during their earliest years.
But she also urged the government to be more proactive by addressing some of the wider determinants of obesity.
The concept of oral health is frequently reduced to the absence of disease, despite existing conceptual models exploring the wider determinants of oral health and quality of life.
The literature, however, has paid little attention to the wider determinants of their health behaviours, including the composition of their social networks.
The Healthy Living Centre (HLC) programme was designed to address the wider determinants of health, in particular social exclusion and socio-economic disadvantage, through targeting services at the most deprived local communities.
While much is made of the need for open spaces and leisure facilities or the cost of junk food and alcohol when it comes to encouraging healthy lifestyle, this research shows wider determinants cannot be ignored, according to Prof Carol Propper, one of the lead researchers.
