'A Glass Half-full' offers a fresh perspective on how to reduce inequalities in community health and wellbeing. It proposes assessing and building on the strengths and resources in a community to increase resilience and social capital, and develop better ways of delivering health outcomes.
Mounting evidence shows that when practitioners begin with what communities have – their assets – as opposed to what they don't have - their needs - a community's ability to address those needs increases. So too does its capacity to lever in external assistance.
This publication offers local authorities, health practitioners and politicians an introduction to the asset model approach and principles and gives examples of how it is being used in England. It also outlines a set of coherent and structured tools that put asset model principles into practice.
How an asset approach can improve community health and wellbeing
COVID-19: public health
Information and guidance related to public health services, including mental health and isolation.
Re-thinking local: public health
Government must commit to sufficiently fund and reprioritise prevention.
Public health on the frontline: responding to COVID-19
Directors of public health from across the country talk about the local response to COVID-19.