From individual actions to integrated working: building health from family, school, and neighborhood
Professor of Health Sciences Carry Renders researches how we can build a healthy society in which healthy living is not dependent on chance, income, or zip code. In her inaugural lecture, she demonstrates that obesity and health disparities arise from an interplay of living environment, social norms, policy, and economic incentives. Therefore, she chooses integrated working: collaborating across sectors and levels to create conditions that facilitate healthy living.
With three key points – engagement, connection, and flexibility – Renders focuses on strengthening healthy living environments around family, school, and neighborhood, strengthening community strength and health literacy, and learning and adapting through research. She examines health and behavioral outcomes, but places particular emphasis on the change process: what works, for whom, and why, how to improve processes, and how measures can reinforce and sustain each other.
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