10 Oct 2021
World Mental Health Day 2021: The link between active travel and mental health
At C3, we’re dedicated to helping people make three fundamental changes to their lives: Stop using tobacco Approve their diet Take more physical exercise All of these habitual changes are crucial to helping prevent the 71% of deaths around the world caused by non-communicable diseases every year. Exercise There is a reason sports medicine doctor Jordan Metzl described... Read More
27 Sep 2021
Insight session in Abbeville for ASPIRE
In early September, we ran an initial data gathering session with members of the community in the northern French town of Abbeville in Picardy. As a partner in Project ASPIRE, C3 is engaging with 7 different communities across the south of England and the north of France to survey their environments using CHESS™, with a view to reducing obesity and enhancing employability.
23 Sep 2021
Vaping & the workplace – A conversation with Martin Dockrell of Public Health England
E-cigarettes continue to be a polarising issue across the public health world, as was evidenced during an exchange between two public health experts at C3’s most recent workplace health webinar run in partnership with the Society of Occupational Medicine. On Tuesday, 21 September 2021 we invited Martin Dockrell, the Tobacco Control Lead at Public Health England to speak to us about the often-divisive subject... Read More
22 Sep 2021
Nurses and Carers for Health: Resource Page
C3 engaged with healthcare workers through surveys and focus groups to identify what resources they would like to learn more about preventing major risks for COVID-19 for themselves and their communities. Here is a digital library we've pulled together in response to those requests.
16 Sep 2021
CHESS Walk in Brent for Prevention in Action
Project Prevention in Action aims to address gaps and barriers in knowledge among healthcare providers about the everyday challenges that low-income, disenfranchised, marginalised populations experience, particularly those who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and/or people living with chronic diseases, when attempting to engage in healthy and active living.
14 Sep 2021
CHESS Walk in Abbeville
CHESS (Community Health Engagement Survey Solutions) is an innovative, data-driven community engagement process. Using the CHESS App, people come together to investigate their local environment, assess the factors that make it easier or harder for them to live healthily, and identify positive changes they can make as a community.
14 Sep 2021
What’s the secret to effective community engagement?
How does one go about engaging a community? How do you build the trust, the sense of shared purpose, the drive, that gets members of a community, diverse almost by definition, on your side? To find out, we sat down with Zoe Keeping, our CHESS Plan Co-ordinator in Boscombe who is working with community members to deliver the actions they had identified as priorities as part of C3's CHESS project.
01 Sep 2021
The impact of tobacco and alcohol use on NCD prevalence: a review
One of the chief risk factors of NCDs is tobacco use, which accounts for over 8.7 million deaths every year, while over 1.2 million deaths are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke (Ritchie and Roser, 2021). In 2017, one fifth of the population of China, Denmark, Netherlands, Greece, Bosnia and Greenland died from smoking.
26 Aug 2021
The Gender Data Gap: how what we don’t know about women is leading to unequal health outcomes
On August 26th of each year, the United States celebrates Women’s Equality Day. The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Its purpose is, in the words of former President Barack Obama, to “pay tribute to the trailblazers and suffragists who moved us closer to a... Read More
21 Aug 2021
World Senior Citizens’ Day 2021
World Senior Citizens’ Day is celebrated annually on the 21st of August and its purpose is to raise awareness of issues affecting older people such as health deterioration, as well as to celebrate the contributions of elderly people to society. According to a report published by the United Nations in 2019, there were 703 million persons aged... Read More