FIN data.pdf

The data materials are project descriptions, midterm and final evaluations from a national government-funded project in Denmark in 2010-2014, <i>Forebyggelsesindsatser i nærmiljøet </i>(Prevention efforts in the local community), where 12 municipalities were involved. The project aimed to strengthen health and wellbeing in deprived neighborhoods. The Danish Health Authority committed these municipalities to work with predetermined risk factors of mental health, smoking and physical activity as well as either diet or alcohol use. Testing of methods for recruitment of the marginalized groups was also part of the project’s framework. The types of the interventions were not specified in advance by the Danish Health Authority. Therefore, the project employees had an open framework to shape the local interventions as long as they were aimed at the predetermined risk factors: mental health, smoking, physical activity, and diet or alcohol. The local interventions ranged widely, including exercise classes, smoking cessation courses, cooking teams and other social activities. Other interventions were more creative; for example, one municipality used activities with art to promote mental health. The collected documents consisted of 1,500 pages of written material.