Promoting self-management, health literacy and social capital to reduce health inequalities in older adults living in urban disadvantaged areas: protocol of the randomised controlled trial AEQUALIS.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older people living in socio-economic deprived urban areas especially suffer the effects of health inequalities but have been insufficiently targeted. Strategies promoted by local primary health care agents might influence health and social behaviours as intermediate social determinants that are modifiable and thus can potentially mitigate health inequalities. Therefore, we aim to develop and assess the effectiveness of a complex intervention based on a community programme that promotes self-management, health literacy and social capital targeting older people from urban socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in order to improve their self-perceived health as an indicator of health inequality reduction.

Methods/design

Design: A pragmatic multicentre, parallel, rand

SUBMITTER: Coll-Planas L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851078 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature