Publications
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Community-led Supporting and Developing Healthy Communities Task Group
Health Issues in the Community (HIIC)
LEAP for Health: Learning, Evaluation and Planning
Partners in health: A toolkit for building successful partnerships
Community-led Supporting and Developing Healthy Communities Task Group
Healthy Communities: A Shared Challenge Final Report (2006)
This report was produced by a Scottish Executive task group set up in 2004 to address the community-led pillar of 'Improving Health in Scotland: The Challenge' (2003) and health inequalities in the context of 'Closing the Opportunity Gap' (2004). This report contains 12 robust recommendations to forward community-led health improvement activity across Scotland.
Communities and Health Improvement A Review of Evidence and Approaches (2006)
This report aims to explore and review evidence and current activity around community-based health improvement in Scotland. The objectives were to examine the evidence underpinning community-based approaches to health improvement and also to gain an insight into the characteristics of effective and less effective partnership working between the different stakeholders involved in community-based health improvement.
Changing Lives The Impact of Community-Based Activities on Health Improvement (2006)
This report highlights the impact of community-based activity on reducing health inequalities, tackling social exclusion and improving health in Scotland. It is based on case studies of what a variety of community-based groups and projects actually do and what participants and close observers have to say about how community-based activities have ‘changed lives’.
Applying the National Standards for Community Engagement to Developing Health and Community Care Policies and Services (2006)
National Standards for Community Engagement were agreed in 2005 after more than a year of consultation and testing in practice. They have been endorsed by many public, voluntary and community organisations in Scotland, including the NHS. This briefing looks at how the Standards could help people working in or with the NHS to achieve the best possible results in engaging communities, and explains how they complement NHS guidance on informing, engaging and consulting the public.
Research into the Sustainability Issues facing Organisations involved in Community Activity & Health Improvement (2006)
This report summarises the findings of a piece of work designed to assess the sustainability issues facing organisations involved in community activity and health improvement. The work was carried out in two parts: desk-based research into current sources of sustainable support, including funding, for voluntary and community sector health work; a survey of a sample of voluntary and community organisations about their experience of seeking and securing sustainable support for health and community development work.
Planning and Partnership Sub-group Report to the Community-led Supporting and Developing Healthy Communities Task Group (2006)
This report aimed to ascertain how existing and emerging local planning and partnership structures and processes, in particular community planning partnerships and community health partnerships, support the development of healthy communities and promote voluntary sector engagement in health improvement. It also makes recommendations as to how partnerships and planning processes could potentially be further strengthened and improved.
Health Issues in the Community (HIIC)
Full national evaluation of the Health Issues in the Community Course (2006)(external site).
LEAP for Health: Learning, Evaluation and Planning
LEAP for Health: Learning, Evaluation and Planning (2003)
This resource is for use by all those involved in promoting health and well-being in community settings, whether in community projects, primary care, clinical practice, health promotion or public health.
Partners in health: A toolkit for building successful partnerships
Partners in health: A toolkit for building successful partnerships (2003)
The Scottish Executive have issued several policy documents on the importance of partnership working between the health service, local authorities and the voluntary sector in promoting better health in Scotland.
Following this, a training initiative was devised to assist understanding on how best to support the development of health promotion activities in the voluntary sector, with the emphasis on partnership working.
Market Research UK undertook an evaluation of the training and its findings, and this together with the experiences of the facilitators and participants comprise the contents of this resource. It contains sections on key principles for successful partnership working, practical steps to successful partnership working, training exercises, dealing with issues of power and influence, project management, and useful resources.
Reviewed 5 April 2010