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The Safe Water System (SWS) is a simple, inexpensive water quality intervention, appropriate for the developing world and proven to reduce diarrhoeal disease incidence in users by 22 to 84 per cent.

The UpforIt project was funded by the Kirklees Partnership, which consists of internal stakeholders from Kirklees Council and NHS Kirklees. Using Communities for Health funding, the Partnership established a project in collaboration with The NSMC to halt the year-on-year rise in overweight and obesity levels among 16- to 24-year-olds attending further and higher education (FE and HE) institutions across Kirklees.

Choose How You Move was a council-run initiative to encourage the widespread take-up of sustainable transport options, with the aim of reducing congestion and car dependency, alongside the added benefits of improved health and fitness.

Commissioned by Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust (PCT), in partnership with Little Angels breastfeeding peer support organisation and The Hub social marketing agency, Be A Star promotes breastfeeding amongst 16- to 25-year-old mothers.

'Early Presentation of Cancer Symptoms' is a community-led programme working across deprived communities in North East Lincolnshire. It uses local knowledge and communities to encourage people to present earlier with suspected symptoms of bowel, prostate and gynaecological cancers, with the aim of reducing cancer mortality rates.

Launched in March 2009 by NHS Hull, Fit Fans is a free weight management service designed primarily for men aged 40 to 65 who want to lose weight.

Snack Right was a targeted intervention for the parents and carers of preschool children from deprived neighbourhoods of Cheshire and Merseyside. It aimed for children to replace at least one unhealthy snack each day with a healthy one, ideally with a fruit or vegetable.

Commissioned by ChaMPs, the public health network for Cheshire and Merseyside, and designed by the ChaMPs social marketing group, the project used a mix of fun activity days, competitions and rewards to encourage and maintain healthy snacking behaviours.

The cleanyourhands campaign was a national initiative in England and Wales to combat preventable healthcare associated infection by improving the hand hygiene of healthcare staff.

Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. It is run by Mind and Rethink, and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief. It is being evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London.

The programme of 35 projects involves: local community projects; a national high-profile campaign; a mass-participation physical activity week; legal test cases; and training for student doctors and teachers.

'Don't Just SAY It Matters' addresses ethnicity-based health inequalities in New Zealand. It aims to increase cervical screening amongst New Zealand's Māori and Pacific women by creating an understanding of the importance of screening and enhancing the service to support uptake.

In 2002 the UK Department for International Development in Kenya commissioned the Population Services International (PSI/Kenya) for an intensive five-year effort to implement the world's largest insecticide-treated net (ITN) social marketing programme. The programme's mandate was to reduce the incidence of malaria, especially among pregnant women and children under five, by creating a culture of ITN use.

As part of England's National Chlamydia Screening Programme, COAST (Chlamydia Outreach Advice Screening and Treatment) is an innovative, nurse-led scheme designed to make the detection and treatment of chlamydia a simple and straightforward process.