As we emerge from the pandemic, in the Health Improvement Team have been re-focusing and re-prioritising our work. In March 2020 many health improvement activities were paused as staff were deployed to health protection roles; as we re-establish our programmes we need to ensure we are responsive to the longer-term impacts of the pandemic. Core to this is a population and prevention approach, empowering communities, tackling inequalities and focusing on holistic health and wellbeing.
As part of our work to establish the vision of health improvement in Shetland, we have also agreed a set of values which highlight the behaviours and principles that underpin our work with partners and communities in Shetland.
We work with a range of tools, techniques and resources to increase capacity, improve knowledge and understanding and inform strategic planning with research, data, evidence and lived experience. Examples of our approaches include the delivery of training, evaluation, developing information resources, planning and delivering projects in collaboration with partners and enabling the use of data and evidence.