html5-img
1 / 13

John Hedditch Manager Public Health & Regional Planning 28 October 2010

John Hedditch Manager Public Health & Regional Planning 28 October 2010. Health inequality and disadvantage A local snapshot. Map of the Barwon-South Western Region. Vulnerable populations and places. Source: Great South Coast Regional Strategic Plan, 2010

emmett
Download Presentation

John Hedditch Manager Public Health & Regional Planning 28 October 2010

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. John Hedditch Manager Public Health & Regional Planning 28 October 2010 Health inequality and disadvantage A local snapshot

  2. Map of the Barwon-South Western Region

  3. Vulnerable populations and places Source: Great South Coast Regional Strategic Plan, 2010 G21 Regional Strategic Plan, 2009

  4. Disadvantaged places, 2006 - Great South Coast sub-region Source: Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage, Census of Population & Housing 2006, Australian Bureau of Statistics

  5. Disadvantaged places, 2006 - G21 sub-region (excluding Colac Otway) Source: Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage, Census of Population & Housing 2006, Australian Bureau of Statistics

  6. Dept of HealthNew Strategic Directions Sept 2010 • Strengthen prevention and health promotionWe will reduce the incidence of preventable disease through education, programs and regulation. • Reduce health inequalitiesWe will tackle the differences in health access and outcomes, especially for disadvantaged groups in our community.

  7. Health inequalities

  8. Walkable Catchment of the Library Corio and Norlane

  9. What are we doing in BSW Region? • Regional Management Forum - whole of government approach • Towards Liveable Communities3 • Colac • Corio and Norlane • Portland • Aims to • Address disadvantage • Improve liveability

  10. What are we doing in BSW Region? • Regional councils, government departments, industry stakeholders have all been actively involved in an integrated regional planning process over the past 12 months. • Improving health and wellbeing has been a key focus • G21 and Great South Coast Regional Plans finalised mid 2010 • Priority medium term projects aimed at addressing disadvantage and inequality • Community strengthening initiatives • Opportunities to work together on the determinants of health inequality and disadvantage • Moving quickly from a planning phase to an implementation phase

  11. Health and wellbeing sector aligned effort • G21 and Great South Coast Community health and wellbeing profiles – LGA and sub regional evidence bases • G21 Health and wellbeing strategy • Great South Coast Draft Health and wellbeing strategy – “Healthier together” • Council Plans • Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans • Primary Care Partnership strategic plans including co-ordinated health promotion effort • Strengthened alignment of priorities, effort and commitment that needs to be built on

  12. Moving forward with a clearer focus • We know the vulnerable populations and places • We are using different lenses and frameworks to tackle the key issues • prevention and health promotion health inequalities environments for health address disadvantage strengthen communities renew neighbourhoods improve social inclusion create liveable communities • We are using a variety of targeted and universal approaches • Are we making a meaningful difference?

  13. Question • What do we need to do in future to help reduce or eliminate avoidable or unfair differences affecting our most vulnerable citizens?

More Related