Abstract

Objective: To analyse the opportunities for cross-sectoral work within the urban regeneration programme & laquo;Quiero mi Barrio>> (PQMB) in promoting health in Chile. Design: A qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study was conducted from a phenomenological perspective in three neighbourhoods undergoing intervention. Location: Three regions of Chile (Metropolitan, Araucania, and Los Lagos), including community representatives, neighbourhood team professionals, and primary health care professionals. Participants: Seventeen key actors linked to the PQMB at the local, regional, and national levels. Methods: Semi-structured interviews, transcribed and analysed by thematic content, with triangulation among researchers. Results: The interdisciplinary work of the PQMB shows opportunities to act on social determinants of health and health promotion, conceiving the neighbourhood as an integral territorial unit. In the socio-health crisis, the PQMB represented a community platform for articulating the neighbourhood with public socio-health protection institutions. The PQMB collaborates with the health sector mainly in promotion and prevention, providing neighbourhood infrastructure for self-care and social strengthening activities. However, there is a lack of integrated territorial planning between sectors at the local and strategic policy levels, which translates into scarce resources for local intersectoral work. Conclusion: Participatory intersectoral planning with common goals should be considered to address the challenges of the territory in terms of the well-being and health of the members of the neighbourhood territorial unit in Chile. (c) 2026 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).