Wellbeing and Regeneration

Project: Healthy Redbridge

Project Lead: Justine Cawley

Project Co-ordinator: Emee Vida Estacio

There is clear potential to reduce health inequalities by targeting upstream health improvement programmes on marginalised communities. Actions take place within a context and understanding local circumstances is vital if effective and sustainable change is to be achieved This requires integrated programmes operating over a period of time that act at a local level, using community development and co-production approaches to ensure that impact is hard-wired into community structure and life.

What is needed therefore are health promotion activities which are:

• targeted at areas of deprivation in Redbridge;
• integrated across often medically-derived disease or health problem specific categories;
• focus on addressing structural barriers to people making healthy choices as well as delivering appropriate messages through social marketing;
• grounded in vital information about the current problems of the communities and individuals who live in them;
• designed and delivered in partnership with the communities themselves to ensure they are tailored to local circumstance and cultural backgrounds and are owned by and strengthen the communities.

Commissioning such a programme will not only help empower communities but also give Redbridge the tools to better engage with the groups that are most in need and to use their internal resources and knowledge to achieve meaningful change in health and wellbeing.

The project will deliver three streams of work in parallel:

• a household survey generating information describing health behaviours and barriers
  
• Data collection from 800 individuals completed; analysis and write up of final report currently in progress.
  
• a community engagement and design process to surface community perceptions of need and to incorporate community’s own ideas and design solutions
  
• Community engagement activities included street interviews, community cafes, appreciative enquiry workshops, knowledge analysis workshops, and stakeholder feedback meetings.
  
• Please click below for the community engagement reports:
  
  Area-specific
  

• Orchard Estate
• Tiptree Estate
• Clementswood
• Loxford
• Valentines
• Hainault

Redbridge-wide

• a mapping of existing services and projects and an analysis of how to better leverage to local need and join these up
  
• Please click below for the mapping reports:
  

• Area-specific
• Borough-wide

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For more information please contact j.cawley@uel.ac.uk

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