Health & Wellbeing Market Research

Health & Wellbeing Market Research

Health and wellbeing market research is a key interest of the M·E·L Research team. A rapidly growing part of our research delivery is in the intertwined fields of public health, primary and social care, and community wellbeing.  Our areas of specialism include:

• Understanding, and quantifying the social determinants of health via large scale population studies
• Measuring the prevalence of behaviours associated with adverse health outcomes such as smoking and drinking
• Exploring the impact of cultural norms within specific communities and how these impact upon behaviour such as vaccination uptake
• Research into active travel uptake and barriers
• Evaluating the success of behavioural nudges and longer term interventions designed to deliver positive health outcomes
• Exploring the impact of mental health challenges
• Delivering customer experience research among service users to enable support services to deliver better outcomes. This includes for advice and support services and end of life care providers
• Delivering employee experience research to understand the challenges facing those working in health and social care.

We work extensively with a wide range of organisations including:

• National health bodies such as Public Health Wales
• Universities and academia
• Public health teams within local authorities
• Regulatory and ombudsman bodies
• Healthcare charities
• Mental health charities
• Suicide and self-harm prevention charities
• Alcohol and substance dependency charities
• Children and young people’s charities
• Providers of training and skills within health and social care
• Providers of end of life care