Focus on prevention: At North Tyneside Homes, services have been remodelled to produce flexible support focused on preventing ill health and promoting wellbeing, reducing dependency on high-cost health and care interventions.
This is not a far-fetched analogy but close to a literal truth: a forest of scientific papers shows how access to urban green spaces enhances mental and physical wellbeing – reducing blood pressure, regulating the stress hormone cortisol, increasing the attentiveness of children with ADHD.
At a local government level, social capital improves community confidence, heightens community participation rates, enhances wellbeing, reduces crime and improves economic prosperity.
We need to find ways of not just meeting basic needs but improving wellbeing, reducing loneliness, and restoring some pleasure to their life.
These are initiatives that improve the physical environment (safety, ergonomics) and organisational climate (supportive culture, autonomy), and promote wellbeing: Reduce on call shifts for residents.
The longer removal is delayed, the more a child's chance of wellbeing is reduced.
The success of the model will be measured by the reduction of the number of days they spend in care, as well as improved school outcomes, wellbeing and reduced reoffending.
The evaluation also found that participation in NCS resulted in more social mixing during the programme, increased wellbeing and reduced anti-social behaviour afterwards, meaning the true returns are likely to be even higher.
There is growing interest in creating indicators of liveability to measure progress towards achieving a wide range of policy outcomes, including enhanced health and wellbeing, and reduced inequalities.
Observational, but few intervention, studies have shown associations between asthma symptoms and dampness and cold in poorly heated homes Non-polluting, effective heating did not significantly affect measured lung function of children with asthma but it improved wellbeing and reduced symptoms of asthma and days off school Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1411.
