Community Health
Our Aims
Our aims with our health and wellbeing programme centre on promotion of awareness as well as opening access to health services.
We aim to tackle health inequalities and how they predominantly affects BAME individuals through also addressing the relevant socioeconomic determinants fuelling it.
Our Services
A core element of our work is to foster greater health and wellbeing across society as a whole through enabling those of a BAME background to access relevant services.
We undertake steps to:
Address Health Inequality
We work within communities and with healthcare providers to raise awareness of health and wellbeing issues and their connection to those of a BAME background.
Improve Access
We work with individuals and communities to increase access to health services, including screening services and preventative measures. This includes signposting and giving advice.
Provide Training
We provide both advice and training to enable those within the BAME community to understand health and wellbeing and the options open to them. We offer training within the community.
Provide Information
We recognise that accessing healthcare requires us to provide independent and confidential information and advice regarding a range of things including welfare rights and benefits, equality and human rights, housing, employment and legal issues.
We care passionately about promoting diversity, social integration, equality and inclusion within the health sector Part of doing this is to fight institutionalised racism and discrimination whilst tackling the wider issues of poverty which are often at the root of health problems.
Expected Outcomes
It’s time for change when it comes to the health and wellbeing of those in BAME groups. We are working with communities to see real change:
- Health not inequality: Our overriding success will be when those in BAME communities are living longer and healthier, on a par with the rest of wider society.
- Choices not restrictions: We hope to see individuals empowered to take steps to improve their own health and wellbeing, drawing on our advice, training and support.
- Awareness not lack of knowledge: Individuals will become more informed about health services and how they can access them.
- Equality not risk: Reductions in the socioeconomic disparity between social groups so that health outcomes are not determined by racial factors.
Our Services
A core element of our work is to foster greater health and wellbeing across society as a whole through enabling those of a BAME background to access relevant services.
We undertake steps to:
Address Health Inequality
We work within communities and with healthcare providers to raise awareness of health and wellbeing issues and their connection to those of a BAME background.
Improve Access
We work with individuals and communities to increase access to health services, including screening services and preventative measures. This includes signposting and giving advice.
Provide Training
We provide both advice and training to enable those within the BAME community to understand health and wellbeing and the options open to them.
Provide Information
We recognise that accessing healthcare requires us to provide independent and confidential information and advice regarding a range of things including welfare rights and benefits, equality and human rights, housing, employment and legal issues.
