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Belfast Healthy Cities: Successes & Challenges

Successes, responsibilities, challenges and benefits of .. ...being a WHO Healthy City Jonna Monaghan Belfast Healthy Cities, Belfast, UK. Belfast Healthy Cities: Successes & Challenges. Joan Devlin Director Belfast Healthy Cities. Improve Daily Living Conditions

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Belfast Healthy Cities: Successes & Challenges

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  1. Successes, responsibilities, challenges and benefits of .....being a WHO Healthy CityJonna MonaghanBelfast Healthy Cities, Belfast, UK

  2. Belfast Healthy Cities: Successes & Challenges Joan Devlin Director Belfast Healthy Cities

  3. Improve Daily Living Conditions Tackle the Inequitable Distribution of Power, Money & Resources Measure & Understand the problem & assess the Impact of Action WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, 2008

  4. The work of Healthy Cities

  5. Belfast Healthy Cities - from project to strategic leadership

  6. Phase II, 1993 – 1998 City Health Planning Phase III, 1998-2003 Strategic Approach City Health Development Planning

  7. Key Joint Products Establishment of Air Quality Forum Quality of Life Matrix; guide for planners Contacts for older people Mental Well being Young People Strategic partnerships & policy impact at regional level Consultation Engagement of new sectors/new ways of working Joint delivery Collaborative advantage Results & Achievements

  8. Healthy ageing

  9. Health Impact Assessment

  10. Healthy Urban Planning Evolving challenge of public health • 21st century: • Obesity • Asthma • Mental health • Cancer • Heart disease • Demography 19th century: • Malnutrition • Overcrowding • Poor housing • Water supply • Sewage disposal

  11. Healthy urban environment Aims for people centred decision making and strengthening collaboration between built environment and health professionals Evidence base Training Influencing/advocacy

  12. Innovationdemonstrating HUE principles in action Good for Health: Good for Regeneration • Using HIA approach to develop indicators for measuring impact of regeneration on health • Social, economic, environmental &access • Headline indicators twinned with inequality indicators

  13. Belfast Healthy Cities – Phase IV Evaluation‘Added value?’ • Health high on the agenda of health & non health sectors • Innovative, inspirational & challenging in influencing and shaping policy - Investing for Health • Introduced new tools to city, HIA and Quality of Life Matrix • Influenced core business, ways of working and priorities within partner organisations • Created structures for communication & information between sectors in the city – Partnerships

  14. Health Equity in All Local Policies What is it? It starts by looking at the effects of (other sectors) policies on health. It then seeks to work with these other sectors to ensure that while contributing to well being and wealth, these policies also contribute to health

  15. Health in All Policies …… • Health is created and maintained (and destroyed) buy activities outside of the health care sector • The more money there is for health care the less there is for other agencies • The agencies who are able to take action on the determinants of health don’t (always) know how to • In the health sector we need to work inter-sectorally but we are not always that good at it (Danny Broderick, South Australia)

  16. Benefits of participating in WHO European Healthy Cities Network • WHO’s local level • Access to International experts • Emerging public health issues • Sharing knowledge & learning • Guidance – profiles • Innovation & technical expertise • Capacity Building/Training

  17. WHO Sub networks Healthy Urban Planning Glasgow/University of West England/Collaborating Centre for Built Environment Health Impact Assessment Belfast /Erica Ison Physical Activity Turku, Finland Equity Health Literacy Liverpool/World Health Communications Healthy Ageing Udine, Italy Sir Michael Marmot WHO Europe Health Divide Network of cities committed to addressing equity WHO Health 2020, WHO European Regional Health Policy Phase V Framework papers: Social Determinants of Health & the role of Local Government Equity Framework for Action Opportunities

  18. www.belfasthealthycities.com http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we- do/health-topics/environmental-health/urban- health/activities/healthy-cities http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/pu blic+content/sa+health+internet/health+reform/healt h+in+all+policies

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