Wright, J, Hayward, A, West, J et al. (34 more authors) (2019) ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing. Wellcome Open Research, 4. 156.
Abstract
Economic, physical, built, cultural, learning, social and service environments have a profound effect on lifelong health. However, policy thinking about health research is dominated by the ‘biomedical model’ which promotes medicalisation and an emphasis on diagnosis and treatment at the expense of prevention. Prevention research has tended to focus on ‘downstream’ interventions that rely on individual behaviour change, frequently increasing inequalities. Preventive strategies often focus on isolated leverage points and are scattered across different settings. This paper describes a major new prevention research programme that aims to create City Collaboratory testbeds to support the identification, implementation and evaluation of upstream interventions within a whole system city setting. Prevention of physical and mental ill-health will come from the cumulative effect of multiple system-wide interventions. Rather than scatter these interventions across many settings and evaluate single outcomes, we will test their collective impact across multiple outcomes with the goal of achieving a tipping point for better health. Our focus is on early life (ActEarly) in recognition of childhood and adolescence being such critical periods for influencing lifelong health and wellbeing.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Wright J et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Environment and Public Health, Noncommunicable diseases, Child Health, Ethnicity, Mental Health |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Safety and Technology (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Inst of Clinical Trials Research (LICTR) (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2019 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2020 13:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | F1000 Research Ltd |
Identification Number: | 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15443.1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153895 |
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