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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.

  • The Heart of Healthcare
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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
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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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