<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-07-08T08:44:08Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/0DEE5436-DE89-482F-B996-93AA9B47C3B1" ns1:id="0DEE5436-DE89-482F-B996-93AA9B47C3B1"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/21BDFE60-58D1-451C-9FE5-40087DB65C7D" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/0D7CD5C0-6E41-4502-B15B-920698F15BED" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/9CD67613-9501-482E-95B8-74B8FEBE7749" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/0D7CD5C0-6E41-4502-B15B-920698F15BED" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2016-10-31T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/963D8BD6-EF62-44FD-B34E-EEC3B6B502B6" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2015-09-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">132025</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Valuing the health benefits of city well-being</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Feasibility Studies</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>A large body of research shows that improvements in well-being have a significant causal impact on better health. However, these benefits have yet to be quantified. In order for local policymakers to make well-being policy, they need information on (a) the health benefits caused by improvements in well-being and (b) the areas and groups within a city that would most benefit from such improvements. The proposed project consists in the development of an interactive model that provides local policymakers with this information.

The well-being policies promoted by this model will result in both improved health outcomes in the long-run (and thereby savings in health spending) and better outcomes in terms of people's well-being. For example, a quantified understanding of the benefits of targetted well-being improvements can result in the local implementation of proven well-being interventions from the Big Lottery National Well-being Programme.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>