Sláintecare Healthy Communities Project: Impact Evaluation Report

This report aims to build on research and findings from 2021 and action research during 2022 to:

• Evaluate the impact of the Healthy Communities team on the effectiveness of the delivery of the programme.
• Continue evaluation of the overall Healthy Communities Programme (and it’s programmes: social prescribing, Healthy Food Made Easy, Healthy Food Made Easy Cool Dudes, Wellbeing & Stress Management, Health Literacy suite of three courses (i.e. Health and Community Professionals, Well Now and Mind Yourself! Men’s Health, We Can Quit and Smoke Free Homes) on participants.

The research itself involved a mixed methods approach including qualitative interviews, focus groups and self-reflections from stakeholders, quantitative data from programme management software and pre- and post- course questionnaires.

Read the report here.