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Central Coast Local Health District

Organisation name Central Coast Local Health District
Organisation type Governmental organisation
Organisation fields
  • Health
Description Improves the health and wellbeing of the Central Coast population
Commenced Work Five to ten years ago
Type(s) of HBE Activity
  • Advocacy for healthy built environments
  • Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
Key objectives of HBE activities
  • To improve people's physical health
  • To increase people's physical activity level
  • To strengthen social capital
  • To reduce pollution from traffic
  • To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
  • To improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
  • To reduce crime through more people on the streets / passive surveillance
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to getting people active
  • Promoting walking for daily travel / recreation
  • Promoting cycling for daily travel / recreation
  • Promoting use of public transportation for daily travel
  • Reducing urban sprawl
  • Providing public open space
  • Providing recreational facilities / playgrounds
  • Improving safety from traffic for pedestrians and cyclists
  • Providing facilities such as toilets, drinking fountains, shelter etc.
  • Improving residential and commercial densities, land use mix
  • Improving connectivity
  • Improving accessibility
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to strengthening and connecting communities
  • Advocating for places where people can meet and connect
  • Input into planning processes that advocate for and strengthen social connectivity
  • Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
  • Promoting equitable access to community facilities
  • Promoting interaction in public spaces including gardens, town squares, parks and lively streetscapes
  • Encouraging supportive social networks within neighbourhoods and participation in decision-making
  • Influencing proximity to places of employment
The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to providing access to healthy food
  • Advocating for controls on food advertising of fast food and exposure in public places
  • Advocating/supporting facilities (e.g. water fountains, community gardens, fresh food markets and allotments, breastfeeding locations etc.)
  • Supporting local food production (e.g., through zoning and land use regulation)
  • Advocating for public transport measures that support access to healthy food (e.g. schedules and timetables and routes, space to store parcels en route, shopping shuttles, home delivery services and/or support for local corner shops and convenience stores)
The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities Development of "Open Space 4 Health" - a small project looking at the provision and accessibility of public open space within suburbs pre-identified to be in need within the Gosford LGA.
Target Population
  • General population
Geographic Focus of HBE activities
  • Urban areas
Website http://www.cclhd.health.nsw.gov.au/