Individually and collectively people actively contribute to health. Social participation is integral to health improvement and social justice and is intrinsic to people’s identity. People have rights to participate in the decisions and actions that affect their conditions for health and their health services. Policy changes in health and wellbeing are a product of a range of socio-political and technical actors and processes and the way they come together to take advantage of contexts and windows of opportunity that create conditions for change.
Shaping health brings together people and institutions engaging with social participation and power and policy change in health to share experiences, approaches and learning on the social drivers of healthy policies and societies. We are a community of practice and learning, gathering people directly involved in this area of work in different countries globally.
Shaping health was initially formed in a project, led by Training and Research Support Centre with partners from five sites in the USA and from twelve countries from all regions globally. It has then widened to include institutions working on policy change in family and child health and wellbeing and on approaches to evaluating the change achieved from efforts to implement social participation in health. You can read more about some of the institutions involved in our links page. The projects have been supported by grants from Charities Aid Foundation of America from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Donor-advised Fund.
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