Community Health Exchange

CHEX is short for Community Health Exchange. We promote and support community-led health - where local communities identify the issues that are important to them and organise to take collective action to address these issues and improve their health.

If you are a local group or organisation in Scotland working to improve the health of your community, or if you are in the statutory sector supporting this type of work, you can register with us for information, advice, networking and training opportunities.

Find out more about CHEX and our network of local community-led health organisations by selecting from the buttons below, or for more about what we do, use the menu on the left.

  

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New learning resource launched at CHEX seminar 

'Community-led Health For All: Developing Good Practice'

The above new Learning Resource was launched at the CHEX Seminar on 15th March at the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow.  The Resource was warmly welcomed by an audience of community-led health organisations and their public health sector partners and you can read the event report here.  Focussing on 6 key competencies, the Resource places community-led health at the heart of a number of key policies related to Public Health/Health Improvement; Community Regeneration; Community Learning and Development and Community Engagement and focuses on the role of strategic decision-makers and practitioners.  Read more here

What is community-led health?

Want to know more about community-led health? Watch a short clip of our film 'The Picture of Health' below featuring some of the local organisations CHEX supports. 

 

 

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*further chapters of the film can be accessed here along with subtitled versions*

 

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