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Building Healthy Communities

Building Healthy Communities. Adele Keys Belfast City - Good for Health: Good for Regeneration. Background to the Local Action Plan. Health and health equity in all local policies core goal of WHO European Healthy Cities in Phase V (2009-2013)

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Building Healthy Communities

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  1. Building Healthy Communities Adele Keys Belfast City - Good for Health: Good for Regeneration

  2. Backgroundto the Local Action Plan • Health and health equity in all local policies core goal of WHO European Healthy Cities in Phase V (2009-2013) • Aim to integrate health considerations into regeneration policy and practice • Lack of indicators relevant to regeneration and health • Lack of appropriate local level data • Potential of HIA approach to strengthen policy making • Capacity on HIA developed in Belfast • Concerns about added burden for policy makers • EU project focused on using HIA approach • Strategic Regeneration Frameworks concrete opportunity • Interest in health impacts in East Belfast and Belfast Regeneration Office • Project partners: Belfast City Council, Belfast Healthy Cities, Belfast HSC Trust, Public Health Agency, NI Housing Executive, Belfast Area Partnerships, DETI, and DOE – Planning.

  3. Milestones • Conduct rapid HIA on East Belfast Strategic Regeneration Framework • Workshop with key stakeholders in June 2009 • Health determinants and impacts prioritised • Utilise HIA to develop indicator framework • HIA workshop basis for identifying indicator domains • HIA approach used to ensure indicators evidence based • Collaboration across the City • Initial indicator framework developed with East Belfast Partnership • All Area Partnerships invited to build framework into citywide indicator set for regeneration and health • Novel process created joint ownership and supported enthusiasm] • Use of HIA specialist consultant

  4. Indicator Model • Flexible indicator model • Rationale based on diverse nature of regeneration projects • Allows tailoring within consistent framework • Emphasis on health equity through pairing indicators • Headline and pillar approach • Key indicators from each domain joined up for headline • Four domains core of framework • Wide baseline identified to support focus on local issues • Information gaps identified • Validated indicators drawn from wide evidence base • Key aim to identify vital indicators currently not available in Northern Ireland

  5. Indicator Framework

  6. Actions • Next Steps • Draft Indicators and guidance to publish early 2011 • 21st October 2010 – Presented to Stakeholders • Data mapping Process and filling gaps • Checklist • Pilots • 3 proposals • Area Partnerships supported to use model • Training • Toolkit

  7. Contact details: • Project manager: Adele Keys Belfast City Council keysa@belfastcity.gov.uk www.belfastcity.gov.uk www.belfasthealthycities.com

  8. contact@urbact-project.eu www.urbact.eu/project

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