Strengthening the equity focus of applied public health research: introducing the FOR EQUITY platform.

Objectives: Much applied health research pays insufficient attention to potential unequal impacts across social groups or is typically focused on a single dimension (e.g. socio-economic status), rarely considering the intersecting social processes driving inequalities (e.

System resilience and neighbourhood action on social determinants of health inequalities: an English Case Study.

Aims: This article seeks to make the case for a new approach to understanding and nurturing resilience as a foundation for effective place-based co-produced local action on social and health inequalities.

Methods: A narrative review of literature on from a public health perspective was conducted and a new concept of was developed. This then shaped the development of a practical programme of action research implemented in nine socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods in North West England between 2014 and 2019.