The INHERIT Model: A Tool to Jointly Improve Health, Environmental Sustainability and Health Equity through Behavior and Lifestyle Change

The INHERIT model has been developed within the EU-funded project INHERIT as a tool to guide thinking and intersectoral action towards changing the behaviors and lifestyles that play such an important role in today’s multidisciplinary challenges. The model integrates ecological public health and behavioral change models, emphasizing inequalities and those parts of the causal process that are influenced by human behaviors and lifestyles. The model was developed through web-based and live discussions with experts and policy stakeholders. To test the model’s usability, the model was applied to aspects of food consumption. This paper shows that the INHERIT model can serve as a tool to identify opportunities for change in important −food-related behaviors and lifestyles and to examine how they impact on health, health inequalities, and the environment in Europe and beyond. The INHERIT model helps clarify these interrelated domains, creating new opportunities to improve environmental health and health inequality, while taking our planetary boundaries into consideration.

Authors: N. van der Vliet, B. Staatsen, H. Kruize, G. Morris, C. Costongs, R. Bell, S. Marques, T. Taylor, S. Quiroga, P. Martinez Juarez, V. Máca, M. Ščasný, I. Zvěřinová, F. Tozija, D. Gjorgjev, G. Arild Espnes, J. Schuit

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Type
EuroHealthNet, Research, Tools
Theme
Built environment (housing, transport, urban planning), Environment, climate change, Non-communicable diseases, alcohol, nutrition, obesity, cancer, smoking, physical activity
Country
Europe
Level
European
Year
2018


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