EXAMPLES: Demonstrating how communities are already contributing to healthier places
Our Communities for Health framework demonstrates the many types of contribution local people can make to a neighbourhood health service and how this can be achieved.
Every aspect of the wheel is evidenced here with active examples, along with links to many more.
HEALTH
Prevention starts locally by promoting healthy lifestyles through physical activity, nutritious diets, active travel, self-care, screenings, and discouraging harmful behaviors like smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet, sedentary habits, and weapon carrying.
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Take-up is about facilitating a greater awareness of services, building trust and addressing fear. It is about creating a community that is aware of healthy living options and ready to buy-in to local activities and services, with a desire to make a personal contribution to the greater good.
Responsive services are services that are readily accessible, flexible and co-ordinated. These are informed by and not limited to healthcare outcomes, identified needs and shaped with local input.
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ORGANISATION
Prevention starts locally by promoting healthy lifestyles through physical activity, nutritious diets, active travel, self-care, screenings, and discouraging harmful behaviors like smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet, sedentary habits, and weapon carrying.
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Take-up is about facilitating a greater awareness of services, building trust and addressing fear. It is about creating a community that is aware of healthy living options and ready to buy-in to local activities and services, with a desire to make a personal contribution to the greater good.
Responsive services are services that are readily accessible, flexible and co-ordinated. These are informed by and not limited to healthcare outcomes, identified needs and shaped with local input.
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SPACE & PLACE
Housing is central in the consideration of the impact the built and natural environment has on the health and wellbeing of communities. High-quality, well-maintained accommodation, matched to local needs and a net positive to people and planet can have an outsized and lasting impact on community agency and health directly.
Urban and open spaces are the spaces that make up streets, parks and public spaces - the fabric between buildings that facilitates life and conviviality. These effectively stitch our neighbourhoods together and form the backbone for how communities are able to engage with each other, and move about their everyday lives.
Economy speaks to the opportunities for paid employment and local enterprise, increasing economic activity and allowing for thriving self-sustaining communities. It is a place that provides opportunities for training and skilling up to ensure progression and long term social and economic resilience.
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