Community action/United Kingdom/Health and wellbeing
This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Health and wellbeing page for a topic overview.
Covid 19
- Find your local group, covidmutualaid.org addedd 14:17, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Health and climate
Green Gym
The Conservation Volunteers' Green Gym programme aims to provide people with a way to enhance their fitness and health while taking action to improve the outdoor environment. It can be seen as enabling people to get fit who would not normally attend a conventional gym or sports centre. W
Resources
- Centre for Ageing Better, independent charitable foundation
- Resources from the UK Healthy Cities Network
- Sustainable development: The key to tackling health inequalities, Sustainable Development Commission, 2010
Splashpath, find your local swimming pools
- Centre for Thriving Places, added 16:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
- Community Wellbeing Index. Enter your post code to get an index for your community, communitywellbeing.coop.co.uk
Walking for Health describes itself as "England’s largest network of health walks with over 360 active walking schemes, helping people across the country lead a more active lifestyle... improving the mental and physical well-being of thousands of people." / Walking for Health
News and comment
2020
Over 200 community support groups spring up as neighbours offer support during Coronavirus outbreak, Mutual Aid Press Release, [1] Mar 15
2019
Air pollution is now a 'health emergency', head of NHS England warns. [2] Oct 21 ...Environment quality UK news
Mind over natter: the English town with a big mental health plan. [3] Sep 11 ...Cambridgeshire
Urban co-design for better wellbeing and health: Healthy New Town. [4] Jan 9 ...Urban sustainability UK
2018
Prototyping a ‘Citizen Research Centre’ by Sarah Drummond, Nov 14 [5]
Future proofing with kindness. [6] Oct 9 ...Food UK news
Can we radically transform the way we deliver health and social care in the UK? Feb 26 [7]
The town that’s found a potent cure for illness – community, Feb 21, George Monbiot. [8] ...Somerset
We need to talk about ageing – and it’s about far more than the NHS, Feb 4, John Harris. [9]
Saving the NHS means forcing us to change the way we lead our lives, Nick Cohen, Jan 28. [10]
2017
Huge health gap revealed between UK’s rich and poor, Dec 23 [11]
Yes, This Is Britain’s Happiest Place. (It Looks Beautiful in the Rain.) Nov 13 [12] ...Yorkshire and the Humber news
Caring Town: Fiona Ward, May 3 [13] ...Totnes
People, place and partnerships in health, May 2 [14]
Being poor kills – to improve public health the government must tackle inequality, Apr 10 [15]
2015
Health hackers: the patients taking medical innovation into their own hands, October 26 [16]
Top doctor: social inequality in UK costing 550 lives every day, September 10 [17]
Blogs
- The Future Patient, A manifesto for patient-led health and healthcare
- UK nurse against climate change
See also
- Health and wellbeing
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
- NHS Sustainable Development Unit
- planetary health emergency, sustainablehealthcare.org.uk