Northern Investing for Health Partnership

• Poverty
• Lifeskills, Educations & Training
• Health & Social Well-being
• Living, Working & Environmental Health
• Partnership

"The social conditions in which people live and work can help create or destroy their health. Lack of income, inappropriate housing, unsafe workplaces, and lack of access to health care systems are some of the social determinants of health leading to inequalities."

World Health Organisation, 2004 

The Northern Neighbourhoods Health Action Zone (NNHAZ) was established in 2001 to tackle health inequalities and improve the health and social wellbeing of residents in fourteen targeted neighbourhoods within the Northern area. The selected neighbourhoods are characterised by multiple deprivation and severe health inequalities. 

The Health Action Zone uses a community-centred partnership approach, which makes best use of existing skills and resources, to tackle health inequalities in these neighbourhoods.