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Healthy Urban Places

A systems approach to understanding how to harness local places as tools to improve population health and reduce inequalities

Ciclistas en el Parque Fluvial del Besòs, un espacio público ubicado a lo largo de los últimos 9 kilómetros del cauce del río Besòs, desde la confluencia con el río Ripoll hasta la desembocadura en el mar Mediterráneo. Con una superficie total de 115 hectáreas es uno de los espacios verdes más importantes de la región metropolitana de Barcelona sobre todo si consideramos su ubicación, formando parte del continuum urbano de las ciudades de Barcelona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Adrià de Besòs y Montcada i Reixac.
Foto: Yvette Moya-Angeler. Parc Fluvial del Besòs.
Duración
01/06/2024 - 31/03/2028
Coordinador
Martine Vrijheid
Financiadores
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The project will look at how and why population health is affected by local environments such as clean air, quality housing, parks, public transport, access to schools and health services etc, and its aim will be to directly influence decisions that improve local places for health.

It will work with partners in two major northern cities – Bradford and Liverpool – harnessing existing major research initiatives including the Born in Bradford and Children Growing Up in Liverpool cohorts, which together will be tracking the health and wellbeing of over 70,000 families.

Healthy Urban Places is a partnership between the Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) which is based at the Trust, University College London, the Universities of Liverpool, York, Leeds and Bradford, Imperial College London, the Bradford Council Health Determinants Research Collaboration and ISGlobal, a scientific research and knowledge transfer centre dedicated to global health based in Spain.

Total funding

37.284,00 GBP

Funded by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Nuestro equipo

Coordinator

  • Martine Vrijheid
    Martine Vrijheid Research Professor y directora del Programa de Medio ambiente y salud a lo largo de la vida