100 – Simon Lennane: How developing trust with community builds community health
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100 - Simon Lennane: How developing trust with community builds community health
"Social infrastructure is a good way of framing community capacity"
Simon Lennane is a GP in Shropshire who has a new book out, called Creating Community Health. For many people in healthcare, common sense tells them that health is more than application of medical treatments. The context in which people live has a tremendous impact on how they experience health and ill health. Simon discovered this through visiting people in the homes. To help address the issues of community he partnered with the Ross Community Development Trust. This led him down the road of exploring the social context of health and the important role that communities play and keeping people healthy, improving their well-being and making sure that when they suffer ill health they remain connected to the community. His book is an extensive presentation of how this can be done and is a treasury of resources
United States
