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## Abstract ## Introduction Living in an area with high levels of child poverty predisposes children to poorer mental and physical health. ActEarly is a 5-year research programme that comprises a large number of interventions (>20) with citizen science and co-production embedded. It aims to improve the health and well-being of children and families living in two areas of the UK with high levels of deprivation; Bradford in West Yorkshire, and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. This protocol outlines the meta-evaluation (an evaluation of evaluations) of the ActEarly programme from a systems perspective, where individual interventions are viewed as events in the wider policy system across the two geographical areas. It includes investigating the programme’s impact on early life health and well-being outcomes, interdisciplinary prevention research collaboration and capacity building, and local and national decision making. ## Methods The ActEarly meta-evaluation will follow and adapt the five iterative stages of the ‘Evaluation of Programmes in Complex Adaptive Systems’ (ENCOMPASS) framework for evaluation of public health programmes in complex adaptive systems. Theory-based and mixe

Author

Liina Mansukoski; Bridget Lockyer; Amy Creaser; Jessica Sheringham; Laura Sheard; Philip Garnett; Tiffany Yang; Richard Cookson; Alexandra Albert; Shahid Islam; Robert Shore; Aiysha Khan; Simon Twite; Tania Dawson; Halima Iqbal; Ieva Skarda; Aase Villadsen; Miqdad Asaria; Jane West; Trevor Sheldon; John Wright; Maria Bryant

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Published

2023

Language

EN