Programme 4: communities, households and families

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Programme 4 communities, households and families

• Gareth Williams
• CISHE
• School of Social Sciences

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Key proposed activity in bid, 2007

• Systematic reviews
• Children and young peoples contributions to lay
  health work
• Development of asset indicators relevant to
  health improvement in communities

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Current projects

• Neighbourhood, social cohesion and mental health
  Caerphilly Study (cohort survey and qualitative
  investigation)
• Impact of recession on health and well being
  (rapid reviews)
• Families, primary schools and food (DH Researcher
  Development Award)
• Strengthening families programme (RCT, awaiting
  outcome of bid to NPRI)

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Programme vision

• To develop studies and interventions
  identifying, building and utilising community
  assets for health developing needs and asset
  assessments, well-being outcome indicators, and
  realistic evaluation strategies in natural and
  contrived settings

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Key areas for potential work

• Understanding and developing resilience in
  people and places through social and economic
  changes
• Extended case studies developing theory at
  different contextual levels to inform
  interventions
• Participatory forms of action research
• Translational and transformative research through
  dialogue with other experts
• WISERD