Samenvatting

This study provides an overview of nine key elements that, according to stakeholders, contributed to the success of the Zwolle Healthy City approach, an integrated community-based approach aimed at reducing socioeconomic health inequalities. The key elements contain collaboration between a variety of local organizations, support for the approach on the strategic, tactical and operational level, communication and coordination, collaboration with private organizations, collaboration with citizens, profiling the approach like a brand, moving along with and taking advantage of opportunities, embeddedness of the approach in organization’s policy and processes, and continuous monitoring and evaluating goals and processes, and learning from the results.