| Organisation name |
Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District |
| Organisation type |
Governmental organisation |
| Organisation fields |
- Health
- Physical activity / Exercise / Sport
- Food / Nutrition
- Urban / town planning
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| Description |
Provides a range of health promotion and prevention services including tobacco, healthy wieght, active living, falls prevntion, nutrition, physical activity, active transport, equity, healthy urban planning. |
| Commenced Work |
Five to ten years ago |
| Type(s) of HBE Activity |
- Policy development
- Advocacy for healthy built environments
- Research to better understand healthy built environments
- Capacity building / staff training
- Information resource
- Tools for practitioners
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| Key objectives of HBE activities |
- To improve people's physical health
- To increase people's physical activity level
- To strengthen social capital
- To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
- To improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
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| 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 residential and commercial densities, land use mix
- Improving connectivity
- Improving accessibility
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| 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
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to providing access to healthy food |
- Mapping food service locations (including fast food outlets, access to fresh fruit and vegetables and vending machines)
- 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)
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| The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities |
Development of a food security postion paper for Councils and health staff. Evalution of useage of outdoor gym facuilities. Currently working with Council on food gardens and a key memmber of the "Food Security Coalition". Progressing a range of strategies under food security Advisory group member for Helthy Comunities Intiiative Wollongong with focus on pA and haelthy eating as well as developing haelthy planning policy within WCC Represenatiove on Healthy cities Illwaraa Gctive Transport Group Key aprtner and adevosory group memmber of 1.2 m biodivesity and food security grant to 3 local councils from Department of the Environment- outcome of development of Illawarra Regional food Strategy nad a whiole range of food growing and sustaiaability initiatives
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| Target Population |
- General population
- Indigenous people
- Other - Low socioeconomic status population.
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| Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
- Urban areas
- Rural areas
- Other - Area covered by ISLHD.
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| Website |
http://www.islhd.health.nsw.gov.au/ |
