Albert Brunet Johansson

ABSTRACT This paper investigates municipal government initiatives targeting ‘local development’ and community sustainability in municipal peripheries in rural Västerbotten, Sweden. Analysing planning documents, we identify 142 initiatives from 2022 to 2023 using a social determinants of health (SDH) framework, particularly focusing on labour, business development, technology adoption, municipality-business collaboration, supporting village associations, and alternative modes of service delivery.

1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine the social context of “domestic food production” (dfp) in the sparsely populated inland North of Sweden, with a focus on understanding the potential contributions of non-commercial food distribution practices to local food security and sustainable rural community-building. Dfp refers to food produced through private individuals’ non-commercial engagement in the activities of hunting, fishing, foraging and domestic farming.

1 INTRODUCTION The objective of this scoping review is to identify strategies that may be used to address the ‘workforce crisis’ in rural social care. The review focuses on contemporary scientific thinking (papers published since 2017) and considers both the nature of the strategies proposed and the extent to which there is evidence for the effectiveness of those strategies.