Harkin on Wellness Report 2024

Published On: 3rd April 2024

By: The Harkin Institute

This report provides twelve case studies of health and wellbeing initiatives in schools, highlighting whole-child approaches.

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Policy and Influencing

Chronic disease Health Inequalities

Posted on: 3rd March 2026

Non‑Communicable Disease Prevention: a collaborative manifesto for the next assembly

A policy‑focused manifesto outlining the scale of non‑communicable diseases in Northern Ireland and setting out 1fourteen evidence‑based recommendations to prevent avoidable illness and reduce health inequalities. It calls for population‑level action on tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food to improve long‑term community health outcomes.

Multimedia

Accessible Communication Tools, Techniques and Checklists Health Literacy

Published on: 25th February 2022

Health Literacy in Community Pharmacy – The ‘Teach Back’ Method

This short video demonstrates a Pharmacist using the ‘Teach Back’ Health Literacy technique.

Guides/Factsheets/Toolkits

Published on: 1st January 2005

Discovering Community Power: a guide to mobilizing local assets and your organization’s capacity

This guide by John Kretzmann et al. will help organisations produce strong community-based projects. Using an asset-based framework, the guide provides practical checklists and worksheets to identify (and strengthen) your proposal's relationship with and utilization of community assets, your organisation's assets and tools which help connect both projects and organisations to community assets.