Transcript A Partnership Approach to Delivering Health

A Partnership Approach to
Delivering Health and Well Being
Janice Lowndes – Programme Director Health
and Well Being
Wayne Priestley – Head of Service, Strategy,
Policy and Performance
• Links to between ‘dirt, disease and poor health’ noted
by Edwin Chadwick in 1840’s
• 1848 Public Health Act – street cleansing, refuse
collection, water supply and sewage systems
• A cleaner environment has meant a massive decline in
rates of infectious disease
• Health of the environment and the health of people are
inseparable
• Problem is we still see them as two separate issues
• Opportunity for change in thinking now that public
health is responsibility of local authorities
• Creation of a national health system that is interested
in health and well-being rather than just illness
Public Health
Place
• Improve health and well being of
population
• Provide clean, safe green living
spaces
• Prevent disease and minimise its
consequence
• Regulate / monitor / educate /
enforce for healthier lifestyles
• Prolong valued life
• Provide greater opportunities for
leisure, exercise in clean safe and
well planned environments
• Reduce inequalities in health
• Work to improve living conditions, air
quality, personal safety etc across
the City
• Whilst old-style infectious diseases may have largely
been eradicated, new challenges have appeared:
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Heart disease
Obesity
Diabetes
Drug and alcohol abuse
Mental health
Health inequalities
Working in partnership – Future roles
• Work as part of multi – disciplinary teams
(environmental health / primary care)
• Help shape policies, strategies and action plans
• Joint health promotion and protection to tackle health
inequalities
• Addressing physiological, mental, social and
environmental problems to address poverty and
deprivation and improve community, health and well
being and quality of life.
Practical examples of joint working between Cluster 3 and
the Health Improvement Service
Allotment Provision / Community Orchards/Outdoor Gyms
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Supports social cohesion
Community regeneration
Leisure and recreation
Healthy food
Climate change
Promotes inter-generational and family activity
Biodiversity
Opportunities for disabled people
Supporting private enterprise
Health improvement and protection
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Improving nutritional standards in takeaways
Under-age sales prevention/alcohol standards
Sunbeds / tattoo parlours
Smoke free homes
‘warm homes healthy people’
Legal ‘highs/counterfeit medicines
Protecting vulnerable people-residential homes
Food and Hygiene standards in emergency
accommodation
New areas of work - Violence Prevention
• Data / intelligence sharing
• Supporting drugs and alcohol initiatives
• Joint working on policy strategy action plan
development
• Financial support of intervention programmes
• Influencing role (prevention before prosecution