General Objectives

• to bring together a multi-disciplinary consortium to gather relevant knowledge in the field and identify best practice across Europe.
  
  
• to collect currently fragmented knowledge on the prevalence of major diseases, risk factors of poor physical health, and effective and cost-effective intervention strategies to improve health status in the target population.
  
  
• to identify best practice for health promotion in mental health and social care Institutions across Europe; criteria for best practice will include evidence of efficacy of physical health interventions and of effectiveness in routine care, cost issues and feasibility of interventions in different contexts across Europe.
  
  
• to develop a health promoting tool that will empower residents and staff to identify the most relevant risk factors in their specific context and subsequently select the most appropriate action out of a range of defined health promoting interventions. The tool must be widely acceptable and feasible to impact on policy and practice.
  
  
• to disseminate the information gathered in the project, the intervention tool, and the instruction kit to put it to use.