Citizen Science and lifestyle-interventions
We are researching, radical from a citizen-researcher perspective, what works and who works on interventions in lifestyle: what works in the activities community organizations organize for health and wellbeing for residents. The result will be an appreciation model for lifestyle interventions that is initiated and maintained by community organizations in municipalities in the Netherlands
GezondMeNu (in translation something like: ‘taking care of health and wellbeing now’) was an initiative of community organisations, knowledge institutions, health and welfare organizations, to explore what works with lifestyle interventions and activities for health and wellbeing from the perspective of inhabitants themselves. You can think of activities like walking groups, service users groups by people and familymembers with dementia, bootcamps with immigrants, football tournaments with Muslima’s etcetera. Central in the project was the construction of a ‘appreciation system’ from the perspective of communities themselves.
In GezondMeNu we built an appreciation model for lifestyle activities and interventions, based on the perspective of community organizations. Ingredients are factors like: this works for my health; this works for my community, this is what makes me happy; this is good for my social relations. In spring 2023 we tested the model, together with the citizen-researchers. In the summer of 2024 there was a working online/offline model for appreciation of lifestyle activities from the perspective of community organizations constructed.
The basic model is accessible here. GezondMenu as a model is regrettably not further implemented, due to a lack of means.
For more information check out their website.
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