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Haleon’s Tess Player: Digital Self-Care Can Reduce Health Inequality And Raise Productivity

 
• By David Ridley

Haleon's partnership with Microsoft to include 1,500 of the former's products in the latter's Seeing AI application – which reads aloud information on packs for the visually impaired – is an example of how digitalization can help to make healthcare more inclusive, according to vice president and global head of healthcare professionals and health influencer marketing Tess Player.

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People living in countries with high health inclusivity scores tend to live well for longer, making them more productive, reported Haleon as part of its recently published Health Inclusivity Index.

Countries with the highest overall scores, such as France, Germany, Sweden and the UK, provide people with tools to self-care effectively and responsibly, the Index explained, pointing to a key

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