Common Health Assets

Common Health Assets

CommonHealth Assets was a large research project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) exploring the impact of Community Led Organisations (CLOs) on the health and wellbeing of community members. The project generated a number of really useful reports and other pieces of evidence to help show the impact of community-led organisations on health and wellbeing

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Community Health Exchange (CHEX)

Community Health Exchange (CHEX)

CHEX promotes and supports community-led health, a way for people in a community to take joint action to improve things for their community, leading to improved health and wellbeing and helping to address health inequalities. Most community-led activity fits this description, and CHEX welcomes any interested community groups to join its network and take advantage of resources, support and other opportunities on offer. CHEX also provides a searchable database of community-led health organisations.

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Where the action is: Community-led health and climate justice

Where the action is: Community-led health and climate justice

In this briefing, CHEX makes the links between community-led health and climate action, arguing that the effects of climate change – as with health and wellbeing – are distributed unfairly, and we cannot address health inequality and wider inequality without also addressing climate justice.

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