Healthy Urban Places is working with communities and local partners to better understand how local urban places impact health and what improvements could achieve the best outcomes.
Our approach focuses on generating this understanding with people in a way which can influence policy and practice to make our urban places healthier for everyone.
The Healthy Urban Places programme is addressing four key research questions, underpinned by two enabling activities:
Enabling: Community Collaboratives – Embedding co-production and stakeholder dialogue
Enabling: Data Infrastructure – Enhancing health datasets with longitudinal spatial indicators
Question 1: What makes a place healthy? Identifying and measuring with communities what makes a healthy place.
Question 2: Which parts of our surroundings help keep us healthy? Analysing how aspects of place affect health.
Question 3: How do changes to local places impact health and inequality? Evaluating health and co-benefits of place-based interventions.
Question 4: What are the lasting benefits of improving places on our health and the economy? Modelling longer-term health and economic impacts of place-based interventions.
Healthy Urban Places is part of Population Health Improvement UK. Further details can be found at https://www.phiuk.org/healthy-urban-places or contact healthurbanplaces@bthft.nhs.uk
