From Pastoral Care to Public Health: An Ethnographic Case Study of Collaborative Governance in a Local Food Bank

Meads, Geoffrey

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“…The term 'moderating influences' also applies to our studies of governance in faith-based social enterprises. These specific contributions by 'experienced elders' have been important in the process of evolution through which exclusively faith-based trustees 'bridge' between their missional aims and the needs and demands of the wider community [34].…”

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Developing Community Health and Cohesion Through Diversity: An Evidence Synthesis for Faith-Based Agencies

Meads¹,

Lees²

2018

Public Health - Emerging and Re-Emerging Issues

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Aim: This chapter examines the relationship of increasing sociodemographic and organisational diversity to community health development. The particular focus is the contribution of faith-oriented agencies to the processes of community cohesion required to underpin public health improvements. Context: The background is of rapid growth in the number of economic migrants and political refugees, their mobility and the impact on formal healthcare services seeking to constrain demand. Globally, a need to extend informal and non-statutory interventions, which promote public health, has been recognised. Methodology: A narrative evidence synthesis was undertaken drawing on research literature and policy documents. Themes emerging were then applied as criteria to elicit key messages from a series of local case studies and service evaluations. The synthesis was undertaken in response to the following two research questions: '(How) can spiritual actors and agencies promote relational integration in both new communities and those with rapidly increasing cultural and demographic diversity?'; 'Which models of wellbeing practice are most appropriate for faith-based contributions to community health development in settings with such (increasing cultural and demographic) diversity?'. Findings: The evidence synthesis confirms the potential benefits of and for spiritual agencies especially, in respect of creating communities with identities built on more open communication systems and socially interactive networks. Conclusion: The topic summary is used to scope a future research agenda in which the profiling of different relationship networks and their development processes is indicated as a priority.

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Section: Local Lessonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Community Health and Cohesion Through Diversity: An Evidence Synthesis for Faith-Based Agencies

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Lees²

2018

Public Health - Emerging and Re-Emerging Issues

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“…Nationally this local development has been aligned to the creation of Academic Health Science Networks specifically dedicated to the rapid evaluation and adoption of new technical and scientific knowledge through partnerships between publicly and privately funded enterprises [5]. Locally the studies have included wellbeing agencies providing for children with long term medical conditions, dementia sufferers, single parent families, isolated seniors, substitute carers, new housing estates and homeless persons [6][7][8][9][10]. Together the aggregate data gathered in this research supplies a means of understanding better some of the relational issues which those involved in resourcing and regulating increasingly hybrid health systems now have to address.…”

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New Wellbeing Interventions in Primary Health Care: Reviewing the Relational Agenda

Meads

et al. 2018

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The growth in the volume and diversity of wellbeing practices as frontline service outlets poses fresh challenges for the adoption of new technical and scientific developments in health care. This short article reports the findings of a review undertaken in the United Kingdom of recent local evaluations of new social enterprises, in order to identify their formative relationships. Drawing on relational audit methodologies a gap analysis highlights three types of relationship where shortfalls hinder knowledge exchange across contemporary primary health care. The findings suggest that further research is required to understand the routes and mechanisms needed for the effective future integration of biomedical innovations into what are, in organisational terms, increasingly hybrid public health systems.

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Household food insecurity in the UK: data and research landscape

Lambie-Mumford,

Loopstra,

Okell

2023

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Household food insecurity is a widely used concept in high-income countries to describe “uncertainty about future food availability and access, insufficiency in the amount and kind of food required for a healthy lifestyle, or the need to use socially unacceptable ways to acquire food.” (Anderson, 1990). In the UK, research focused on food insecurity was relatively rare before the rapid spread of food banks and growing usage from 2010 but since then, has burgeoned (Loopstra and Lambie-Mumford, 2023). There was very little peer-reviewed literature on the topic in the UK when DEFRA commissioned a Rapid Evidence Assessment of evidence on food aid in the UK (Lambie-Mumford et al 2014), but there is now an established field of research on household food insecurity and responses to it that spans disciplines including public health and nutrition, social policy, politics, geography, food policy and systems. Government monitoring of food insecurity has also evolved over this time, with the FSA first including a food insecurity measure into the Food and You survey in 2016, and the DWP including the same in the FRS from 2019/20. The Agriculture Act 2020 requires the UK government to report on food security to Parliament at least once every three years, and the UK Food Security Report that is produced to fulfil this duty now includes reporting on data from these government surveys (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021). This rapidly developing field has resulted in a varied landscape of research and evidence on food insecurity. The FSA has an interest in advancing its research on household food insecurity in the UK as part of its strategy. The FSA works to protect consumers’ wider interests in relation to food, and the FSA strategy 2022-2027 recognises that people are worried about food affordability and insecurity and therefore they will continue to consider the impact of these issues across all work. To inform the FSA’s approach to future collaborations and research priorities on food insecurity in the UK, it was deemed a priority to first gain greater clarity on the scope of the research landscape already in existence in the UK. Thus, this research was commissioned to give the FSA an overview of household food insecurity data and the landscape of the type of research questions related to food insecurity that have been explored in the UK context. More specifically, the aims of the project were: to scope the landscape of research and data on household food insecurity in the UK, covering that produced by academia, civil society, and government departments and including publicly available datasets; and to identify the key gaps in the research landscape and inform priorities for the FSA’s work on household food insecurity going forward. Importantly, the task was not to describe the findings of this large body of research, but rather to identify the landscape of research questions asked in relation to food insecurity and the approaches taken to answer these. The areas focused on were research on definition, concept and measurement of food insecurity, drivers of individual/household-level access to food, experiences of different population sub-groups, outcomes related to food insecurity including those related to food safety, and responses to food insecurity at the national/local level (including those by third sector organisations and local and national governments).

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From Pastoral Care to Public Health: An Ethnographic Case Study of Collaborative Governance in a Local Food Bank

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Developing Community Health and Cohesion Through Diversity: An Evidence Synthesis for Faith-Based Agencies

Developing Community Health and Cohesion Through Diversity: An Evidence Synthesis for Faith-Based Agencies

New Wellbeing Interventions in Primary Health Care: Reviewing the Relational Agenda

Household food insecurity in the UK: data and research landscape

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