Bills & Access
Workplace health benefits people never use
Employees routinely pay for services their employer already provides, because nobody reads the benefits document.
Health Wealth Tiger — What the healthy choice really costs
Bills & Access
Deciding what to spend on your health
A rough ranking of where money produces the most health, based on what the evidence actually supports.
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Choosing between public and private treatment
Paying privately buys speed and choice rather than better outcomes, and the transfer back is where problems arise.
Bills & Access
End-of-life planning and its practical costs
The documents are cheap, the conversations are free, and the absence of both produces the largest costs.
Food & Budget
Cooking skills that save the most money
A small number of techniques convert cheap ingredients into meals, and they are the ones nobody is taught.
Fitness & Movement
What fitness trackers can and cannot tell you
They are accurate for some things, poor for others, and their main value is behavioural rather than physiological.
Dental & Vision
Dental emergencies and what to do
Some dental problems can wait and some cannot, and one of them is a genuine medical emergency.
Screening & Checks
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Screening & Checks
Overdiagnosis, and why more medicine is not always better
Detecting disease that would never have caused harm is a real and measurable phenomenon with real costs.
Screening & Checks
Health checks at different ages
What is worth doing changes by decade, and knowing what applies now prevents both over-testing and missed opportunities.
Screening & Checks
Family history and what to do with it
A well-collected family history changes screening, and it is free, quick and almost never gathered properly.
Medication & Pharmacy
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Medication & Pharmacy
Talking to a prescriber about cost
Cost-related non-adherence is common, harmful and almost entirely fixable, and the conversation is the barrier.
Medication & Pharmacy
Vitamins, minerals and when supplementation is medical
Several deficiencies are common, consequential and cheap to correct, and they are different from the supplement market.
Medication & Pharmacy
Antidepressants and stopping them properly
They are effective for moderate and severe depression, and stopping them requires more care than starting them.
Dental & Vision
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Dental emergencies and what to do
Some dental problems can wait and some cannot, and one of them is a genuine medical emergency.
Dental & Vision
Mouth ulcers, bad breath and the small things
Minor oral problems are common, are cheap to manage, and a few of them are signals that should not be ignored.
Dental & Vision
Dry eye, contact lenses and daily eye care
Contact lens complications are uncommon and serious, and dry eye is common and manageable with cheap measures.
Fitness & Movement
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What fitness trackers can and cannot tell you
They are accurate for some things, poor for others, and their main value is behavioural rather than physiological.
Fitness & Movement
Exercise with a long-term condition
For most chronic conditions, activity is treatment rather than a risk, and specific programmes exist that people are not referred to.
Fitness & Movement
Getting active again after a long gap
The main risks are doing too much too soon and giving up, and both have straightforward countermeasures.
Food & Budget
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Cooking skills that save the most money
A small number of techniques convert cheap ingredients into meals, and they are the ones nobody is taught.
Food & Budget
Feeding a household on a very tight budget
Practical measures for genuine constraint, including the support that exists and goes unclaimed.
Food & Budget
Fibre, and why it is the nutrient that matters most
Intakes are below recommendations almost everywhere, the evidence is unusually strong, and the sources are cheap.
Bills & Access
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Bills & Access
Deciding what to spend on your health
A rough ranking of where money produces the most health, based on what the evidence actually supports.
Bills & Access
Workplace health benefits people never use
Employees routinely pay for services their employer already provides, because nobody reads the benefits document.
Bills & Access
Choosing between public and private treatment
Paying privately buys speed and choice rather than better outcomes, and the transfer back is where problems arise.
About Health Wealth Tiger
Screening, dental, physio, medication, fitness and food — the everyday health decisions, what the evidence supports, and what each one costs over a year. We publish explanatory articles rather than news, which means an article here is written to still be useful a year from now. Every piece is bylined, sourced and read by an editor before it appears — the full process is set out in our editorial policy.