title: [The ''neighbourhood health'' strategy: actions focused on areas with special social and health needs].
abstract: Through the Law 2/2004 on improving neighbourhoods, urban areas and towns requiring special attention, the Government of Catalonia set up a fund for financing projects prepared by town/city councils for the integral improvement of neighbourhoods. The Ministry of Health signed on to the strategy with The Neighbourhood Health Programme, which was a healthcare policy priority. Healthcare and municipal structures cooperate at neighbourhood level in all of the phases of the community intervention project (analysis and detection of needs, prioritisation of the problems detected, definition and distribution of actions). Techniques such as the nominal group are used. Four vulnerable groups have been identified with higher levels of illness, co-morbidity, situations of risk, etc. (the young, the elderly, women and recent immigrants). The actions of all the agents involved, among them those from the Ministry of Health itself, are then intensified and prioritised and a specific portfolio of public health services is prepared.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Salut, Direcció General de Salut Pública, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sierra
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cabezas
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brugulat
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mompart
mesh_terms: D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012947:Social Work; D013030:Spain