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Health and Sustainability Healthy Places Healthy Communities Healthy Planet Ann Marie Crosse Eco-Health Officer [email protected]
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Health and Sustainability Healthy Places
Healthy Communities
Healthy Planet
Ann Marie Crosse
Eco-Health Officer
New Fundamentals
Social
Environment
Economic
New Goals-New Measures
Health and Place
Determinants of Healthy Places
Health and Sustainability-The Co-Benefits
Ecohealth
Community Place Based Approaches
Healthy Gardening- Sustainable Food Systems
Green Prescription- Nature as a resource for health
Health Service
Sustainable Health System
Creating Healthy and
Sustainable Places
Your Place
Sense of Identity
Shared
Purpose
Bedrock of community
Natural
Processes
Human health cannot be considered in
isolation. It depends highly on the quality of
the environment in which people live.
For people to be healthy, they need
healthy environments.
Health and Place
Determinants of Healthy Places
Ecosystem Services and Health
UN Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
Ecosystems and Health
“The 'alarming' rate of nature loss could harm food sources and industry, and exacerbate climate change”
"Humanity has fabricated the illusion that somehow we can get by without biodiversity or that it is somehow peripheral to our contemporary world: the truth is we need it more than ever on a planet of 6 billion [people], heading to over 9 billion by 2050. Business as usual is no longer an option if we are to avoid irreversible damage to the life-support systems of our planet."
Achim Steiner United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
Health Impacts
Depression Obesity Anti Social Behaviour Social Exclusion Lack of Identity Health Inequalities Stress
Population Urban living Car Dependency
Weather Bees
Habitats Food
22nd July
Health & Sustainable Development- Co Benefits
“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” The Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future 1987
Influence of Place as a setting.
Health Statistics and Trends link to Ecological Determinants of Health and Wellbeing.
Interconnections and Interdependencies.
Systems Thinking/Integrated Approach
Health and Sustainable Development- Co Benefits
Rationale for Eco Health Approach
Eco-Health Approach
Community Place Based Approach
Healthy and Sustainable Communities
“A Community’s ongoing capacity and resolve to work together to establish, advance and maintain effective strategies that continously improve health, wellbeing and quality of life for all.”
EU Health and Environment 2004
Engaging and Enabling Communities
Integrated Area based programmes
Utilising Resources for Local Benefit
Creating opportunities to work together
Strengthening Communities
Making Sustainable behaviour choices through structured learning
Partnership Working
Cost Effective
Legislation and Target setting
Healthy Gardening Integrated Themes
Organic Gardening
Healthy Food & Nutrition
Food Sustainability
Green Exercise
Positive Mental & Community Health
Beekeeping
Composting & Reducing Waste
Energy and Water Consumption
Sustainability Social Enterprise
Food Pyramid/Food Sustainability
“Eating isn’t an agricultural act alone, but also a climate
supporting act and a chance to practise generosity with every bite” Wendell Berry
Supportive Environments
Communities
and Social Resources
Natural, Built and Physical Resources
Healthy and Sustainable
Communities
Green Prescription
Programme The Green Prescription is a Health Professionals written advice to be active in the outdoors.
4 Week Green Steps
Support Worker
8 Week Community Walks
“I’m a diabetic and my sugar levels have fallen, the lowest I had been in
years” [Male RW]
“then something give, it (back pain) started easing, I thought well if it’s going to ease it I’m
going to do it...if I don’t walk I start back on the pain killers
again” [Female RW]
Effects of the Programme on Referred Walkers (RW)
“...the families of people on the green prescription getting excited and coming to us and saying thank you, that the person was in a much
better positive frame of mind at home” [EcoHPO]
“these people stopped being a patient and became a walker in the walking group” [GP]
Effects of the Programme on Community Walkers (CW)
“building up a fitness level over the weeks, I have lost a fair bit of weight on the walk like...I do a
lot more walking as a result of taking part in the walk because I see the benefit, it becomes a little bit addictive sort of thing you know” [Male CW]
“It’s also good for your mind, it’s good to kind of clear your head and you know to have
thinking time aswell” [Female CW]
Effects of the Programme on The Community
“.....but because we have a bond now with the walking club you would meet them in the shop and wave hello to them you know because you
have some kind of connection whereas before you wouldn’t really have” [Female CW]
“I think the benefit overall was a massive community spirit increase, so
the whole idea of community resilience and community infrastructure, the
whole idea of sense of place, sense of belonging, to me that was really, really
strong as a population health outcome” [EcoHPO]
“and there’s lots of young people that I got to know ...I
didn’t know them before and now they’re in the parish
you know and I think its lovely, lovely young people that we didn’t even know,
and we meet them all now” [Female CW]
Sustainable Health Service
Energy Waste
Procurement Water
Education
Health and Sustainability the Co Benefits
Healthy Communities
Healthy and Vibrant Places
Healthy Ecosystem
Healthy Futures
