A NORTH-EAST academic has been awarded funding to research how best to bridge the health experience gap of different social groups and to ensure teenage parents are not excluded from society.
Professor Nigel Malin, of Sunderland University, has received £65,000 to evaluate work carried out by Sunderland Healthy Living Centres (HLC) and Tyne and Wear Health Action Zone's Sure Start Plus project.
Sunderland HLCs were set up to help reduce inequalities in the health experience of different social groups.
Prof Malin, who specialises in health services research at the university's School of Sciences, has been given £30,000 to evaluate the centres.
He has also received £35,000 to assess the effectiveness of the Sure Start Plus initiative.
The project aims to cut the risk of long-term social exclusion and poverty for teenage parents and their children
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