Glenorchy Healthy Communities Plan 2014-2023 1/09/14
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Glenorchy Healthy Communities Plan 2014-2023 1/09/14 About this document This is the Glenorchy Healthy Communities Plan. This Plan replaces the 2008-13 Recreation Plan. The document was prepared by @leisure Planners in conjunction with Council Staff. Acknowledgements @leisure wishes to acknowledges the staff who contributed to this Plan, in particular the project manager Len Yeats, and Janine Coombes of Community Focus who provided a considerable input. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form, by any means, without the prior written permission of Glenorchy City Council and @leisure GZVg*()Bi6aZmVcYZgGdVY6hXdiKVaZK>8(%('6jhigVa^V +&(.('+&++'^c[dViaZ^hjgZ#Xdb#Vjlll#ViaZ^hjgZ#Xdb#Vj GLENORCHY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PLAN 1 1/09/14 Contents About this document ......................... 1 4. APPENDICES ........................................ 48 Acknowledgements ........................... 1 Appendix 1. Existing Policies and Plans ..................................................... 48 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................... 3 Appendix 2 Executive Summary 1.1 This project .................................... 3 Evaluator Report "Glenorchy on the 1.2 Key concepts and definitions ......... 5 Go" May 2014. ............................ 59 1.3 National and State directives ......... 6 2. ROLES, ACHIEVEMENTS, ISSUES AND FOCUS OF THIS PLAN ............................. 8 2.1 Council’s role in health ................... 8 2.2 Why Council has a pivotal role in health and wellbeing ................... 10 2.3 What has been achieved since the last Recreation Plan? ................... 11 2.4 Current issues and those arising since the Recreation Plan ............ 12 3. GOALS OF THIS PLAN ........................... 18 4. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS BY GOAL ..... 19 Goal 1: A healthy natural and built environment that encourages healthy lifestyles and eating 19 Goal 2: A cohesive and inclusive community with well developed social and community networks and assets .................................. 32 Goal 3: Improved personal health knowledge, practices, and lifestyles .............................. 39 GLENORCHY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PLAN 2 1/09/14 1. Introduction trend where Councils are seeking 1.1 This project to address overall wellbeing in A Healthy Communities Plan has planning been developed to replace to the How this was prepared 2008-2013 Recreation Plan and guide Council in its pursuit of: Improved This Plan was prepared following: health & wellbeing of the people of . An extensive literature review of Glenorchy through increased health and wellbeing and related awareness of, and participation in, policy and plans physical and wellness activities. A review of Council strategies / Broad priorities, goals and strategies policies, and 2013 community and high level actions have been survey conducted through the prepared that Council, in partnership Glenorchy Matters Community with relevant stakeholders, will use Panel to improve the health and wellbeing . Discussions, and a workshop with of residents and workers in staff Glenorchy. Preparation of priority actions for This Plan seeks to set the high level discussion and a briefing of agendas for the next ten years and Aldermen outline the more detailed work that Through this process, three key will be conducted in specific areas. priority action areas have been . This Plan seeks to add further identified that will guide Council dimensions to the Recreation departments, local service providers, Plan, such as healthy eating, and community organisations and other areas where Council can businesses in implementing health impact on health issues such as and wellbeing initiatives in the City of chronic disease, and diabetes Glenorchy. This broader health and wellbeing approach reflects a GLENORCHY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PLAN 3 1/09/14 Relationship to other plans . This Plan reinforces directions from: This Plan will inform additional more detailed future policies and plans, . Australia’s Health Framework for such as (see Image 1): Determinants of Health, AIHW, 2012 . Open Space Strategy . A Healthy Tasmania: Setting New . Sportsground Policy Directions for Health and . Foreshore Policy Wellbeing, 2013 . Reserves Strategy . A Thriving Tasmania: Final Report . Trails Policy of the Ministerial Health and . Subdivision Policy. Wellbeing Advisory Council, December 2013, and . The Tasmanian Government’s Performance measures and annual 2013-2014 Policy Framework of priorities from this Plan will be set in Jobs, People and Opportunities. Annual Plans for each Council department. This Plan reinforces content of the Council’s current Strategic and Community Plans, and provides for future updates of specific departmental Council Plans: Image 1. Influence of Healthy Communities Plan GLENORCHY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PLAN 4 1/09/14 1.2 Key concepts and definitions Health Glenorchy’s demograPhic Profile Health doesn’t just mean being free There are some key demographic from sickness and disability. Health is characteristics that make Glenorchy’s a complete state of physical, mental population vulnerable to poor health and social wellbeing. outcomes and are likely to constrain participation in sport and physical Many of the factors influencing activity, and social connectedness. health lie outside the health sector. Glenorchy’s population has a higher The social determinants of health are median age and lower median the conditions in which a person household income compared to lives, that determine their chances of Australia and Tasmania. It has fewer achieving good health. Social, couples with children; a higher environmental, and economic factors proportion of medium and high- are important determinants of density housing and a higher human health and are interrelated. proportion of non-English speaking This Plan acknowledges the people than other areas of Tasmania. importance of social position, stress, Considerably fewer people have early life, social exclusion, work, Bachelor qualifications than in unemployment, social support, Tasmania and Australia. Glenorchy addiction, food and transport as has higher levels of unemployment contributing to health outcomes. and social disadvantage than Tasmania and Australia as a whole, and an increasing and higher Wellbeing proportion of people who have need Wellbeing is a state of being happy, for assistance due to a severe or healthy and prosperous. profound disability. People cannot fully achieve their potential unless they are able to take control of those things that determine their wellbeing. GLENORCHY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PLAN 5 1/09/14 Place-based approaches accept that 1.3 National and State directives local knowledge of the social, cultural and institutional context of There are four common themes in communities is central to improving the relevant directions from the health and wellbeing of its national and state plans: Leadership residents.4 across sectors, Place-based approaches, Target groups: Place-based approaches: experiencing greatest disadvantage, 1. Are designed to meet unique and Activities of non-health areas of needs of locations Council. 2. Engage stakeholders across all Leadership across sectors sectors in collaborative decision- making “A Healthy Tasmania” State 3. Seize opportunities, particularly Government policy direction local skills and resources suggests there is a need for a commitment to “Establishing a 4. Evolve and adapt to new learning coordinated and comprehensive and stakeholder interests approach to health and wellbeing 5. Encourage collaborative action by across government and community, crossing organisational borders by building collaborative and interests partnerships with communities, and 6. Pull together assets and the government, non-government knowledge through shared and private sectors”. ownership Place-based approaches 7. Attempt to change behaviour and norms in a location Place-based approaches are the best ways of improving health and reducing health inequity in Tasmania.3 This suggests that locality, community or place-specific approaches that promote capability are the most effective. 3 The Fair and Healthy Tasmania Strategic Review’s main 4 findings Ibid. GLENORCHY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PLAN 6 1/09/14 Target groups: those experiencing Activities of non-health areas of greatest disadvantage Council Health inequities are most evident Recent health and wellbeing efforts in the following groups of people: focus on areas which research suggests have major impacts on . Young people health and wellbeing of a . Older adults community, but are outside those . People with low incomes traditionally identified as health . People who are born overseas services. These include: of non-English speaking . Planning and design of green backgrounds space . People with a disability . Residential subdivision design . People with limited education, . Planning and encouraging use or those and design of non-motorised . Who live in remote areas. off-road transport People in these groups also . Securing sources of healthy experience additional constraints in food participating in leisure activities, . Providing opportunities for and typically have lower than physical activity average participation in physical and . Providing opportunities for social activities. development of social activity, inclusion, networks, support and skills. GLENORCHY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PLAN 7 1/09/14 2. Roles, achievements, issues and focus of this plan Less quantified contributors