More about Community-led health

Community-led health focuses on the community as making change happen rather than seeing the community as needing changed. This makes it different from community-based health services which involve people in health initiatives that have already been designed.

Community-led health is often carried out by local community-led organisations which support people to:

  • recognise and organise around issues of common concern
  • work together on those issues
  • work within values of equity and inclusiveness
  • influence and transform public policies and services
  • identify community assets and build on these

A community-led approach to health improvement is now a significant feature of health improvement policy and practice. A strong and resilient community-led health sector is included in NHS Health Scotland’s strategic priorities for 2017-2022.

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Community Health Exchange (CHEX)
Community Health Exchange (CHEX)

CHEX supports and promotes community development approaches to improving people's health.

Scottish Co-production Network
Scottish Co-production Network

The Scottish Co-production Network is a way for people to share ideas and learning about co-production.

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Health Issues in the Community

Health Issues in the Community (HIIC) is a training programme which looks at issues such as health, poverty, power and social justice in a different way.

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An introduction to community-led health

Training: This training will focus on community-led approaches to health improvement and addressing health inequalities.

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Health Issues in the Community - tutor training

Training: The 2 day HIIC Tutor Training course is a SQA credit rated aims to equip participants to deliver credit rated Health Issues in the Community training.

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Action Research by, in and for Communities (ARC)

ARC is to help community and voluntary groups carry out research in and with their communities.
CHEX-Point Snippets

CHEX-Point Snippets is a free fortnightly e-bulletin produced by CHEX, aimed at sharing information between community-led health organisations, health practitioners and policy makers.

CHEX Community-led Health Database

Community Health Exchange (CHEX) has developed a searchable database of community-led health organisations.  It allows you to type in key words based on activity, geography and target group to find relevant organisations.