Discovery Museum, Hub.Library Kerkrade and Vie: partners in health
Discovery Museum, Hub.Library Kerkrade and Vie will work closely together in improving the health of the residents of Kerkrade and the region. Only together can the persistent health backlog be tackled, with prevention being central, is the partners' view. To this end, they signed a cooperation agreement today in the Vie accommodation.
Becoming and remaining a healthy and vital region requires a new way of working. Permanent improvement of a complex health issue requires a broad approach. Health issues should therefore be addressed from a broad perspective. This approach is also known as the "Health in All Policies" approach.
Cohesion, cooperation and innovation are keywords in the approach to health and vitality. The difference can be made precisely by the various partners complementing each other in terms of content and target group. Discovery Museum, Hub.Bibliotheek Kerkrade and Vie have expressed their desire to be structural partners in tackling health inequalities. Here health goes far beyond the absence of disease.
Health is approached in collaboration from the 6 elements of Machteld Huber's positive health web:
- Physical well-being
- Mental well-being
- Meaning
- Quality of life
- Social participation
- Daily functioning
From this broad approach to health and the idea of "participating in society with personal responsibility" they join forces, particularly in the field of promoting health from the bottom up among various target groups/residents. They do this by creating awareness and connecting to the environment of the various target groups. Each other's knowledge and expertise will be used in such a way that the parties strengthen each other.
Within cooperation, the following key aspects can be distinguished:
- Thinking and interpreting
- Connect
- Debate
- Citizenship education/personal development
- Development and testing
By intertwining and connecting in this way, steps will be taken whereby each other's sum is greater than three separate parts
Hub.Library Kerkrade can, among other things, support in putting vitality on the agenda, spreading knowledge and information, learning skills and stimulating communities around health topics. Discovery Museum has a role in developing and testing in pop-up pavilions, working together on solutions and in researching and developing concepts and products. The objective is for visitors to develop as critical and active citizens. Support is aimed at increasing autonomy.
Within Vie, this cooperation agreement gives a central role to the Vie-Innovation Hub Parkstad, the knowledge and expertise center. This is where Vie's health and vitality programs and products are conceived and monitored. And activities take place aimed at stimulating cooperation, community building and experimentation.
