Meeting the Shared Challenge
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CHEX is supporting community and voluntary sector organisations in ‘Meeting the Shared Challenge’ National Support Programme for community-led health. As a main plank of the Scottish Government’s Community led health Task Group recommendations, the Programme is funded by the Scottish Government, via NHS Health Scotland and delivered by Scottish Community Development Centre and CHEX.
Its aim is to help public bodies, community and voluntary sector organisations work together on strategies and activities which support communities to address health issues. Our working definition of community-led health is:
‘A community-led approach to health improvement is concerned with supporting communities experiencing disadvantage and poor health outcomes to identify and define what is important to them about their health and wellbeing; the factors that impact on their wellbeing and take the lead in identifying and implementing solutions.
Community led health is concerned with the community as the focus of, and mechanism for change, rather than the community as a setting for health practice. This makes it fundamentally different from the provision of community-based health services, and different from the participation of communities in pre-determined health initiatives.’
For more information on the Programme, please visit http://www.scdc.org.uk/shared-challenge/.
