Economies for Healthier Lives
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Millions of pounds are spent every year on projects to improve the places we live; including the roads we use daily, our homes, and those buildings that support our day to day needs, including community centres, sports facilities and hospitals.
This often involves huge construction projects which by their nature have the potential to impact on our daily lives. These projects are often long-term, funding intensive, projects that add or build upon assets. We will be using two examples in this project focusing on major housing and transport projects.
The project aims to co-produce a new tool to test out the health impacts that can be gained from these projects across the Glasgow City Region (GCR). The tool is called a Capital Health Inequalities Impact Assessment Tool (CHIIA).
The strategic aim of the project is to enable such investments to maximise population health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across the eight local authority areas that make up the Glasgow City Region.
To support this project and ensure we take account of as many views as possible, a new community panel is being recruited and will play an important part in the development of the toolkit. It will work with health and other professionals from Public Health Scotland, Glasgow City Council and the Glasgow Centre for Population Health to develop the new tool.
These organisations will be assisted by a number of specialist partners, one of which is the Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) whose role will be to create and support the Community Panel to play an effective and meaningful role in the development of the new tool.
The community panel
The Community Panel will have valuable lived experience to contribute and be a key stakeholder in the development of the tool alongside subject matter experts (e.g. project managers and planners). It will draw its membership from representative groups and organisations who experience inequality and/or who are seldom heard.
Community Panel members will come therefore from a range of groups and organisations across the city of Glasgow. They are likely already to be board/committee members, volunteers or participants in group activities and have an interest in health inequalities and how they can be addressed.
The Community Panel will be part of a wider approach to public consultation that will include for example; interactive digital platforms, survey work and focused work to maximise engagement by the general public.
In the longer term the Panel will explore how the new tool can be used with other community groups across the Glasgow City Region area.
To find out more, they can contact Francesca Lynch Francesca@scdc.org.uk.
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This project is supported by the Health Foundation.