MAKING LIFE BETTER Making it your own Liz
MAKING LIFE BETTER Making it your own Liz Mitchell Institute of Public Health in Ireland
A WHOLE SYSTEM STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC HEALTH 2013 - 2023
Vision and aims • All people are enabled and supported in achieving their full health and wellbeing potential • The aims are to achieve better health and wellbeing for everyone and reduce inequalities in health
Values • Social justice, equity and inclusion • Engagement and empowerment • Collaboration • Evidence informed • Addressing local need
Key features • High level strategic • Whole system approach, cross – cutting • Collaboration, engagement and empowerment • The social gradient – proportionate universalism • Themes - wider determinants and lifecourse • Outcomes and supporting actions
MAKING LIFE BETTER themes ØGiving Every Child the Best Start ØEquipped throughout Life ØEmpowering healthy living ØCreating the conditions ØEmpowering Communities ØDeveloping Collaboration
Outcomes, actions and indicators • Long term outcomes identified for each theme • Strategic supporting actions/commitments over current budgetary period – to be rolled forward • High level indicators to serve as proxy measures to monitor progress towards outcomes, and over time
Giving Every Child the Best Start outcomes • Good quality parenting and family support • Healthy and confident children and young people • Children and young people skilled for life
Giving Every Child the Best Start – actions • • • Child health Parenting and family support Preparing for school Literacy and numeracy Skills for life Play and leisure
Give every child best start • Affordable, available, high quality childcare – Nordic countries Child Poverty Alliance, Beneath the Surface Child Poverty in Northern Ireland. http: //www. ci-ni. org. uk/Database. Docs/nav_4786494__beneaththesurface_web. pdf • Chinese pre-schools to adopt NI Early Years programme http: //www. bbc. co. uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29876247 • We know what to do – implementation and scale
Equipped throughout Life outcomes • Ready for adult life • Employment, life-long learning and participation • Healthy active ageing
Equipped throughout Life actions • Employment, including youth and older people • Skilling workforce • Opportunities for volunteering/learning • Age friendly environments
Empowering healthy living outcomes • Improved health and reduction in harm • Improved mental health and wellbeing, and reduction in self harm and suicide • People are better informed about health matters • Prevention embedded in services
Empowering healthy living actions Implement “lifestyle” strategies Promote mental wellbeing Screening and vaccination/ immunisation Health literacy Health professionals equipped for prevention/ early intervention • Emphasis on prevention/early intervention in commissioning and delivery • • •
Creating the conditions outcomes • A decent standard of living • Making the most of the physical environment • Safe and healthy homes
Creating the conditions actions • • • Economic strategy Benefit uptake Physical environment Transport Housing Safe “by design”
Empowering Communities outcomes • Thriving communities • Safe and healthy workplaces
Empowering Communities actions • • Urban regeneration Community development Access to local facilities Good relations Promoting volunteering Community safety Road safety Workplace and farm safety
Developing Collaboration outcomes • A strategic approach to public health • Strengthened collaboration for health and wellbeing – includes local partnership action
Developing Collaboration actions Joined up working for public health Health in all policies Research and development Legislation – tobacco etc and new Public Health legislation • Local partnership action on - Food - Space and place - Social Inclusion • •
Spaces and places • Foyle Bridge – South Korea, Mapo Bridge reimagine • CCG – make it local, make it owned – link with research https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=5 hab. YHXPb. VM
The impact of CCG • Increasing % meeting recommended levels of physical activity • Reducing inequality in physical activity • Role of built environment • Encouraging community to initiate/sustain change • Cost-effectiveness of CCG to influence physical activity levels and improve health
Making it work
Next Steps • Re-shape local partnerships to align better with community planning • Wider engagement • Communications strategy to provide consistent messages • Meeting of Ministerial Committee for Public Health
Conclusions • Do something, do more, do better • Do what we can now with tools and means available • Use evidence/adapt to local • Implement at scale
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
Institute of Public Health in Ireland Working for better health across the island of Ireland through: • Strengthening public health capacity • Providing /interpreting information for public health • Advising on policy Supporting action to address health inequalities
The Health Well http: //www. thehealthwell. info
elizabeth. mitchell@publichealth. ie
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