| Organisation name |
Population Health, South Western Sydney Local Health District |
| Organisation type |
Governmental organisation |
| Organisation fields |
- Health
- Physical activity / Exercise / Sport
- Food / Nutrition
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| Description |
Population Health aims to protect and promote the health of the local population. We recognise that many personal, local and global factors affect health and illness. Our services work with partners to deliver a comprehensive range of high quality, evidence-based health services to the population of South Western Sydney and Sydney Local Health Districts. Ultimately Population Health strives to achieve equity of health status and health service utilisation across the population. |
| Commenced Work |
Five to ten years ago |
| Type(s) of HBE Activity |
- Advocacy for healthy built environments
- Research to better understand healthy built environments
- Information resource
- Guidelines for practitioners
- Tools for practitioners
- Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
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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 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
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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 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
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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/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 the Healthy Urban Development Checklist - Sustainalbility Chapter.
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| Target Population |
- General population
- Children
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Older people
- Women
- Indigenous people
- People with disabilities
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| Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
- Other - Syndey and South Western Sydney LHD
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| Website |
http://www.slhd.nsw.gov.au/PopulationHealth/ |
