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Healthy Communities ConsortiumHelping to build healthy communities
Peggy Schultz, Health NexusLorna McCue, OHCC
May 5, 2011
Collaboration for Healthy Communities
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Overview
Purpose: To focus attention on the broad determinants of health and collaborative approaches to creating healthy communities.
Definitions of Health and Determinants of HealthHealth Promotion and Healthy CommunitiesCommunity Capacity and CollaborationExamples of CollaborationsQuestions/Dialogue
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What is Health?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (WHO, 1948)
Created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life; where we learn, work, play and love.
(Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986)
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HEALTH
Health Services
Income and Social Status
Employment and Working Conditions
Biology and Genetic
Endowment
Culture
Social Support
Networks
Education
Social Environments
Physical Environments
Personal Health
Practices and Coping Skills
Healthy Child Development
Gender
BELIEFSVALUES
ASSUMPTIONS
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Biomedical Model
Behavioural Model
Socio-environmental
Model
cardiovascular diseases
cancer
HIV/AIDS
stroke
diabetes
obesity
hypertension etc.
smoking
poor eating habits
physical inactivity
substance abuse
poor stress coping
lack of lifeskills etc.
poverty
unemployment
powerlessness
isolation
environmental pollution
stressors
hazardous living and working conditions etc.
(HP 101 On-line Course)
3 Models of Health
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What causes heart disease? Biomedical: Heart disease is caused by
hypertension, family history, & build-up of arterial plaque.
Lifestyle: Heart disease is caused by smoking, physical inactivity, excess alcohol consumption & high fat diet.
Socio-environmental: Heart disease is caused by stress, poverty, unemployment & social isolation.
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Illness care system 25%
Biologicalendowment, genetics 15%Physical environment 10%
Social and economicenvironment 50%
Health StatusHealth Status
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* Data from CIAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research). Graph created by Saskatchewan Health. June 1997
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What we need to do:• Understand the interactions between individual
characteristics, social and economic factors, and physical environments.
• Develop strategies that address the entire range of factors that determine health.
• Focus interventions on the health of an entire population, or significant sub-populations, rather than individuals.
• Foster shared responsibility for developing healthy public policies outside the traditional health system.
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How we can get there . . .
build new alliances for health and well-being
• work better across jurisdictions (health, education, justice, employment)
• work better across government, voluntary and private sectors
One way
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Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion
Strengthen Community Action
EnableMediate
AdvocateCreate
SupportiveEnvironments
Health ServicesReorient
DevelopPersonal
Skills
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Health Promotion Values
Holistic view of health
Social justice and equity
Power sharing and respect
Social inclusion
Empowerment
Evidence-based practice
Collaboration
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Creating a Healthy Community
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Collaboration
Full Collaboration
Coalition
Partnership
Alliance
Network• C
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• Inve
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• Owne
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• Com
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What is community engagement?
Community engagement means people working collaboratively, through inspired action & learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future.
Source: Tamarack Institute of Community Engagement
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Why engage communities?
Encourages people to come together to create social change
Builds capacity for individuals & communities to have more control over the factors that influence health
Increases social capital in communities
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Inclusion and Equity A lens to help focus on the political, social and
economic factors that influence the health of populations
Focus on the structures and conditions, rather than the specific factors that contribute to each individual’s social exclusion or inclusion.
Inclusion helps focus on health inequities
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Community Capacity
…is the combination of a community's commitment, resources and skills that can be deployed to build on community strengths and address community problems and opportunities.
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Outcomes of CommunityCapacity Building
1. Expanding, diverse, inclusive citizen participation
2. Expanding leadership base
3. Strengthened individual skills
4. Widely shared understanding and vision
5. Strategic community agenda
6. Consistent, tangible progress towards goals
7. More effective community organizations and institutions
8. Better use of resources by the community
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Examples of Collaboration
Healthy Communities – Communautés santé
Connecting the DotsFoodNet OntarioHealthy Communities Consortium
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BC Healthy Communities Mouvement Acadien des Communautés en
Santé du Nouveau-Brunswick Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition Réseau quebecois de Villes et Villages en
santé
Partners
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Connecting the Dots
Healthy Communities Consortium
CTD is a dynamic, multi-sectoral, community engagement model that helps communities “work together differently” for better chronic disease outcomes and improved health for all. Health Nexus works with communities to bring together a wide cross-section of community leaders to address complex problems in a new and innovative way.
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Working together to achieve a food-secure Ontario
FoodNet Ontario is a province-wide network that strengthens organizations and individuals committed to achieving community food security and creating sustainable local food systems. FNO members include a broad range of participants in the food system - including farmers, consumers, health promoters, community groups and government organizations – who are working together to create food systems that are healthy, just, accessible and sustainable.
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Healthy Communities Consortium
We are group of four health promotion organizations that collaboratively support community organizations and partnerships in Ontario to build healthy communities.
Members of the Consortium are:• Health Nexus • Parent Action on Drugs (PAD)• Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (OHCC)• Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA).
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Consortium Clients
The Consortium provides a continuum of services, in both official languages, to:
• Healthy Communities Partnerships• Community groups and organizations
interested in and eligible for Healthy Communities Fund Grants
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Consortium Services
Consultation Services• Personalized on-site or phone/email support
Learning Events• Webinars, provincial workshops and regional workshops on a variety of health
promotion and community development topics
Knowledge Transfer and Exchange• Educational resources, listservs and electronic bulletins
Network Support• Participation on and capacity-building services networks aligned with the Healthy
Communities framework
Referrals• Referrals to additional resource centres and organizations
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Contact the Consortium
To learn more about the Consortium or to request a service:
Visit www.hcconsortium.ca (English) or www.consortiumcs.ca (Français)
Call 416-408-4841 or 1-800-766-3418 ext. 3
Email consortium@ohcc-ccso.ca