The wider determinants of health are the social, environmental and economic factors that affect health and wellbeing. For lasting positive change, we need to understand and respond to the complex systems influencing these factors and our health.
In partnership with Executive Directors of Public Health across Wales and their teams, Public Health Wales has been successful in securing three years’ funding from the Health Foundation Shaping Places grant funding programme. Shaping Places focuses on local governments and local partners taking system-wide action on the wider determinants of health and programmes have already been established in England and Scotland.
The Shaping Places for Well-being in Wales programme will provide a national resource to support Public Services Boards (PSB) in taking a theory and evidence informed systems approach in their work to influence wider determinants of health as they implement their well-being plans, sharing learning between PSB and across the UK.
The programme will establish three national learning groups who will each work on a different theme for a period of two years. The themes below have been agreed with PSB across Wales and are based on existing PSB well-being plans.