PREVENT: integrated, community-based prevention

PREVENT aims to increase the quality of (co)living in the urban environment, by strengthening integrated community-based. prevention at the intersection of health and well-being. Together we work on good (research) infrastructure in neighborhoods to address challenges around prevention.

Health disparities mean that opportunities differ between persons. We want everyone to be able to participate and matter in the community. That is why this project focuses on: 

• Strengthening interprofessional collaboration between healthcare and social work
• Exchange knowledge in and between community-based Fieldlabs
• Strengthening community-based prevention 

01 March 2022 - 01 March 2030

Together with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, we are building a strong (community-based) infrastructure. This infrastructure enables professionals in local Fieldlabs to practice and learn optimally interprofessionally and jointly with relevant stakeholders like researchers, policy makers, teachers, students and residents. PREVENT is divided into five workpackages: strengthening the consortium, quality of research, Fieldlabs, PREVENT Academy and communication and impact.

Collaboration with study programs

We cooperate with many study programs of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HVA). From the HU, the following institutes are involved: Social Work, Law, Safety Studies, Nursing Studies, Paramedic Studies, Physiotherapy, Life Sciences & Chemistry. From the HvA, the faculties of Society and Law, Health and Exercise Sport and Nutrition are connected. 

Teachers are involved in the Fieldlabs and integrate new insights from research into education and disseminate them through guest lectures, minors and collaboration in projects. The connection between research and education is further strengthened in PREVENT and made structural for the theme of integrated community-based prevention with specific attention to interprofessional collaboration.