Annika Frahsa and her research group on community health and health care systems research had a mandate by Health Promotion Switzerland on particularly vulnerable population groups in health promotion and prevention. This mandate was to strengthen the issue of health equity in the development and implementation of the new cantonal action programs on health promotion and prevention.
As one output of the mandate, a recently published factsheet introduces the relevance of a multi-layered understanding of vulnerability in the context of health promotion and prevention. It provides knowledge for programs and projects towards health equity in this field by presenting potentially interacting factors for vulnerability at different levels, key numbers of the extent of existing vulnerability in the Swiss contexts, as well as good practice examples and a differentiated view on stakeholder participation and their roles and expertise in this context. The fact sheet differentiates life phases with a particular focus on children, adolescents, young adults and older people aged 65+ as well as on a strengthening of resources and people’s capabilities and agency for health promotion through participation.
The fact sheet is available in German, French, and Italian via: https://gesundheitsfoerderung.ch/node/9737
