Section 5: How the Gateshead MECC Approach Has Challenged Inequalities

Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach that uses the many day-to-day interactions that organisations and individuals have with people as an opportunity to enhance health and wellbeing. MECC training provides staff, volunteers and community members with the skills to engage people in conversations about the benefits of behaviour change to boost physical and mental health and wellbeing. 

MECC has supported and empowered people from across all sectors to understand what inequalities are and the complexity interactions between different kinds of inequalities.

MECC has raised awareness within our most marginalised populations that inequalities are avoidable, as well as unfair. This has enabled participants to consider some of the challenges and solutions regarding the differences in the status of people's health based on where they live, lifestyle and access to services.