CommonHealth Catalyst

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Led by Professor Michael Roy, CommonHealth Catalyst aims to develop a community research consortium to address health disparities.

This collaborative project will undertake the preparatory work to build the consortium focused on Lanarkshire.

This area in Scotland is among one of the places with the poorest health, and widest health inequalities, in Western Europe.

In this project we will aim to:

Project Lead: Michael Roy

Project Team: Rachel Baker, Cam Donaldson, Gillian Murray, Janet Greenlees, Kirsty Strokosch, Ewan Gibbs, David Walsh, Marissa Collins, Jennifer McLean, Kerri Todd, Mohasin Ahmed and Ayeshah Khan

We produced the following reports on our findings:

1. The epidemiology of Lanarkshire

2. Oral histories of people who live and work in Lanarkshire

3. Assets mapping workshops

4. Programme budgeting

5. Experiences of integrated health and social care in Lanarkshire

6. A report on the Lived Experience Panel

7. A synthesis of the findings

Animated film: Closures and Beginnings

Hear from people who've lived through the major social and economic upheavals associated with the closure of mines, steel works and factories in Lanarkshire.