Community Health Champions: One of the keys to unlocking the health inequalities challenge?
2 Jun 2009
By Roz Davies, Programme Director, Altogether Better Programme, NHS Yorkshire and The HumberThis Local Work highlights a practical approach to reducing health inequalities through community empowerment where national, regional and local partners are working together to develop an approach to community empowerment in health and well-being which is systematic and integrated into the core business of reducing health inequalities.
The approach offered by the Altogether Better Programme is aptly named
‘Community Health Champions’. This approach is both values and outcomes driven.
It requires commitment, challenge and a genuine change in the power dynamic
across communities and public services. With this challenging effort and
cultural change comes a huge potential win for all stakeholders; the reduction
of health inequalities and an increase in civic participation. Interested? Read
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