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Thomson, L.J., Hume, V., Critten, A. & Chatterjee, H.J. (2025). Common features of environmentally and socially engaged community programmes addressing the intersecting challenges of planetary and human health. Frontiers in Public Health: Planetary Health, 13(1449317).

See full study: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1449317

Key findings from the analysis of survey and interview evidence with creative health practitioners highlight the need for inclusive practice, partnerships, sustainable funding, and environment-based health interventions.

The study makes a case for partnership work and sustainable funding to support practitioner wellbeing as well as the processes, outputs and impacts of environment-based health interventions instrumental in preventative healthcare.

Resource Output from the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities (MCA) Programme

Mobilising Community Assets (MCA) is a three-phase UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Research Programme running from 2021 to 2027. It is coordinated by the Culture-Nature-Health Research Group at University College London, in partnership with the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), led by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Medical Research Council (MRC). MCA has encouraged the projects it has funded throughout the UK to share knowledge and approaches to integration of community assets into the integrated care structures that exist in the local communities.