Mapping ActEarly: Using a child health map to evaluate a City Collaboratory programme on early promotion of good health and wellbeing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public health is increasingly being viewed as the result of numerous interrelated elements within intricate systems. A systems mapping approach highlights the potential direct and indirect impacts of public health programmes, the contexts within which they take place and the relations between the multiple factors at play. We report on an approach to evaluate the extent to which a city-wide programme of interventions, delivered in two locations to improve child health (ActEarly) provided activities across the child health system and addressed early-life core outcomes which were selected based on priorities identified by key stakeholders.

Methods

Data from an 'ActEarly project log' and other information sources were used to gather a detailed picture of 68 projects t

SUBMITTER: Gansallo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12810778 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature