We focus on four complex health issues more prevalent in urban areas
With the Social Progress Imperative, we've developed the first neighbourhood level, health-focused social progress index of its kind.
With Wellcome Trust
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Where we grow up, live and work hugely influences our health. And in urban areas, we see the best and worst health outcomes, often just roads away from each other. We are Impact on Urban Health. We're focused on improving health in inner-city areas by understanding and changing how inequalities impact our health.
Childhood obesity
Through our partnership with CHL UK, we're exploring how the food industry can create opportunities for people to be healthy.
Our data team investigate what the 2021 census reveals about Lambeth and Southwark.
Rachel Coldicutt, Director of Promising Trouble, explores how free or reduced cost internet access could improve health outcomes.
We work with local, city, national and international organisations to help urban areas become healthier places to live.
With Sustain, the Obesity Health Alliance and The Food Foundation
With Bremner Consulting
Research and Development
With Promising Trouble
We fund and partner with others to tackle complex health issues more prevalent in urban areas.
Programmes
We want to break the link between low income and poor nutrition, by improving the quality of food options in lower-income neighbourhoods.
We want to make it possible for all children to have strong, positive mental health by making support more equitable when young people experience behavioural difficulties.
We want to address the health effects of poor air quality on people whose health is most impacted by air pollution: children, older people and people with heart and lung conditions.
We want to address the social and economic determinants of health in order to ensure longer, healthier lives for people with multiple long-term conditions.
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