Health and Healthy Equity in all local policies

In 2010 Belfast Healthy Cities held a series of events aimed at building capacity and supporting sectors in embedding health and health equity as a core element of organisational policy and actions.

The topics for this series of seven lectures have been taken from a needs based assessment carried out in 2008 by Belfast Healthy Cities and partner organisations and include:

• Health & Health equity in all local policies;
• Leadership for health equity;
• Achieving Health equity;
• Community planning for health;
• Community engagement;
• Social marketing;
• Health Spending versus health outcomes.

The programme aimed to enable individuals, politicians and organisations to:

• increase their understanding of the social determinants of health;
• develop knowledge about the distribution of health and wellbeing and inequalities in health,
• gain an understand what is meant by health and health equity in all policies
• learn of case studies and tools, useful for policy makers and practitioners in redesigning policy to achieve health and health equity outcomes.

Further information about the lectures, including presentation by contributors can be found here