Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health – a perspective on definitions and distinctions

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Collaboration between community members, researchers, and policy makers drives efforts to solve complex health problems such as obesity, alcohol misuse, and type 2 diabetes. Co-creation is an overarching guiding principle encompassing co-design and co-production.

🔑 Key Findings

• Community participation is essential to ensure the optimal design, implementation and evaluation of resulting initiatives.
• The terms 'co-creation', 'co-design' and 'co-production' have been used interchangeably to describe the development of initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• While commonalities exist across these concepts, they have essential distinctions for public health, particularly related to the role of stakeholders and the extent and timing of their engagement.

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