Health impact of area-based interventions in Dutch deprived neighbourhoods: the URBAN40 study

Background When striving for health equity, we need to find ways to improve the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, also called the social determinants of health. However, we still lack sufficient knowledge on evidence-based strategies addressing these social determinants of health. Area-based interventions that target deprived neighbourhoods are one possible way to deliver the complex interventions needed to tackle these determinants of health. In the URBAN40 study, we …