Research and analysis

Health and wellbeing: a guide to community-centred approaches

This guide outlines a ‘family of approaches’ for evidence-based community-centred approaches to health and wellbeing.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 11 February 2015

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A guide to community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing: full report

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A guide to community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing: briefing

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Details

Local government and the NHS have important roles in building confident and connected communities as part of efforts to improve health and reduce inequalities.

The project ‘Working with communities: empowerment evidence and learning’ was initiated jointly by PHE and NHS England to draw together and disseminate research and learning on community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing.

This report presents the work undertaken in phase 1 of the project, and provides a guide to the:

• case for change
• concepts
• varieties of approach that have been tried and tested
• sources of evidence

Published 11 February 2015