"Tackling health inequalities" describes the work of the Sevenfields Community Health Champions during 2023 and 2024.
The Sevenfields Community Health Champions project was a partnership between Lewisham Council’s Public Health Team, Sevenfields PCN, the Sevenfields Health Equity Fellow, Downham Dividend Society Community Land Trust (CLT) and Social Life. Downham CLT is led by a resident Community Health Champion, and four more residents of the Sevenfields area were recruited as Community Health Champions in summer 2023.
The central aim of the project was to develop plans and projects to reduce health inequalities. We know that people who live in poverty, in poor housing, with low paid and insecure jobs or facing discrimination have shorter lives. People in are dying too young because of where they live or who they are. However we believe these disparities are preventable and we want to make health equal for all. This is called “Health Equity” and achieving this has been the overall aim this work.
Illustrations by Federica Ciotti.
