| Organisation name |
Northern Sydney LHD |
| Organisation type |
Governmental organisation |
| Organisation fields |
- Health
- Physical activity / Exercise / Sport
- Food / Nutrition
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| Description |
Undertake partnerships and large-scale projects to improve population health. Priorities are obesity prevention, tobacco control and alcohol-harm prevention. |
| Commenced Work |
Five to ten years ago |
| Type(s) of HBE Activity |
- Policy development
- Advocacy for healthy built environments
- Capacity building / staff training
- Guidelines for practitioners
- Tools for practitioners
- Provision of physical infrastructure
- Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
- Other - Interagency partnerships and advisory groups.
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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
- To reduce crime through more people on the streets / passive surveillance
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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
- Improving safety from traffic for pedestrians and cyclists
- 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
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| 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.)
- 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 |
Involved in "Urban Planning 4 Health" (UP4Health) and a program of regular/frequent HBE-focussed submissions (local to national), interagency partnerships, internal capacity building and advocating within and outside NSW Health.
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| Target Population |
- General population
- Children
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Older people
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| Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
- All of the state
- Urban areas
- Other - Mostly NSLHD.
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| Website |
http://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/ |
