Designing health-informed public engagement
We have published a toolkit and short film to help local government practitioners use health evidence and draw on lived experience introduce and deliberate traffic and street improvements with the public.
The toolkit, ‘Designing health-informed public engagement’ provides practical tips based on learning from the challenges around introducing Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in England, framing theory and our testing of health-informed creative engagement materials. You’ll find ideas around introducing the rationale for change, the design of early public engagement – including a deliberative approach to in-person engagement – and examples of health framing, as well as checklists of key considerations.
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In the film, Family journeys to school, ‘Sometimes its life or death’, watch as parents Jasmine, Luke and Matt share their concerns about the impacts of their daily school journey on their children’s health and safety. You can use this film (and a shorter version on our YouTube channel) to explain the consequences to health, especially child health, of local traffic conditions, and introduce the importance of change.
The families reveal their concerns about air quality, safety, the overall stress of travelling through busy roads and streets and injustice facing those living in the most affected areas. The impacts of toxic fumes on respiratory health, busy roads and obstructed pavements and the unpredictable nature of drivers are all touched upon, highlighting the “motornormativity” at play.
The film was produced by Drummer TV and commissioned by our public engagement team at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).
Family journeys to school: ‘Sometimes its life or death’
Parents Jasmine, Luke and Matt explain their anxieties around the daily journey to school
For more information contact Jo White, Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England.