Healthy Settings Development Unit

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The Healthy Settings Development Unit was established in 2001 and aims to support and facilitate the holistic and integrated development of healthy settings – acknowledging that “health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life; where they learn, work, play and love” (WHO: Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986).

The Unit forms part of UCLan’s School of Public Health and Clinical Sciences. Its portfolio includes:

  • development, delivery and management of externally-funded settings-based health promotion programmes – including the Big Lottery funded Pan-Regional Prisons Programme, Health, Inclusion and Citizenship
  • research, evaluation and knowledge exchange
  • training, CPD and consultancy
  • contributing to the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate public health teaching – including the specialist Healthy Settings module
  • leadership and co-ordination of UCLan’s Healthy University initiative 
  • co-ordination of the English National Healthy Universities Network
  • chairing the International Union of Health Promotion and Education’s Global Working Group on Healthy Settings
  • contributing to the development and management of WHO’s Health in Prisons Project

Contact

Healthy Settings Development Unit
Harrington 226
University of Central Lancashire
Preston
PR1 2HE

Email: healthysettings@uclan.ac.uk
Tel:    01772 895575
Fax :  01772 894989