Your Life – Kent Health

Annual Public Health Report 2013

Meradin Peachey – Director of Public Health

Purpose of APHR

• Independent report

• Highlight successes and areas for further work

• Evidence based approach

Progress since last years report

• Health Inequalities

oMind the gap: building bridges to better health

oNew techniques for understanding variation in outcomes – building on Chris Bentleys work

• Long Term conditions

oKey priority for Kent

o Integration between services

oYear of Care and Pioneer

Progress since last APHR (continued)

• Role of primary care in prevention

o NHS Health Check now fully implemented across Kent

• Safeguarding

o Assessed adequate with good capacity to improve in areas

of

• Safeguarding

• Adoption

• Children in care

o Development of a social work contract with more emphasis

on authoritative practice

o Commissioned five social work master classes from

experts in children’s social services

Focus for this years report

• Improving health by exploring innovative approaches

to developing healthy communities

• An asset based approach – glass half-full approach

• Building resilience

• Six ways to Wellbeing

• Website and video case studies

Why this topic?

Your life – Kent Health

Dahlgren and Whitehead’s Social Model of Health (1991)

Six ways to Wellbeing Connect

Be active

Keep Learning

Take notice

Give

Grow

Kent Outdoors

Marion Gibbon – Consultant in Public Health

West Kingsdown

Case study

Adult participation in physical activity

2009-2011

Reducing diabetes through exercise

Canterbury student

Frazer Edwards, 20,

has reduced his

regular medication and

feels great, all thanks

to a very simple

prescription – exercise.

Walking for health schemes in Kent

Communities

Jess Mookherjee – Consultant in Public Health

Ivan Rudd – Public Health Specialist

Six Ways to Wellbeing

: https://vimeo.com/78341358

Giving: Mircea’s Story

Mircea’s Story

“I enjoy helping people to learn new things. And

it goes the other way round. For example, I help

people to fix their computer and they help me

with what information I need to write down my

CV.

I always have something to do. It keeps me going

and I’m happy about that.”

Mircea volunteers as an IT tutor at The Healthy

Living Centre Dartford. http://www.hlcdartford.co.uk/

Giving: Peer Supporters

Zara’s Story

• The group really helped me – and the social

element was really important, too.

• So when the opportunity came to train as a

supporter myself, I got involved because I wanted

to give something back.

Grow Your World

• The six ways are simply themes that act as tool to

enable you to stay well.

• The Sixth Theme has particular significance to

how an individual acts in their world.

• Plans Policies Programmes in KCC

• Recycling at an individual level

• All contribute.

What Are Your Thoughts?

https://vimeo.com/78341358

Join Me on the Wheel of Wellbeing Table

Economy and Sustainability

Malti Varshney – Consultant in Public Health

Kas Hardy – Public Health Specialist

Social

Economic

Environment

Sustainable health &

care system

Six Ways to

Sustainability

Regeneration

CONNECT

GROW

GIVE

KEEP LEARNING

NOTICE

BE ACTIVE

ENABLE COMMUNITIES TO CONNECT

AIR POLLUTION, EXPLORE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

APPRECIATE NATURE AND BIODIVERISTY

YOUR OWN ALLOTMENTS SUPPORT GREEN GYMS,

RECYCLYING AND REDUCING WASTE

WITH STAFF AND BUILD RELATIONSHIPS

PROMOTE ACTIVE TRAVEL

STAFF NEEDS

PROMOTE NEW STAFF SKILLS

SUPPORT STAFF WELLBEING

INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

WAYS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY WILL REDUCE CARBON FOOT PRINT

Tonbridge and Malling: Case Study

100 + Stop

smoking referrals

400 Wellbeing or NHS health

checks

300+ Registered smokefree

Homes awards

50+ Adult weight management

referrals

1,000+ Intervention

and brief advice (IBA’s) for smoking

and safe use of alcohol

Working with Businesses

• Regeneration is important for the economy and we

aspire to have healthy work force in Kent.

• Kent also has diverse economy of small and

medium enterprises (SMEs) with around 50,000

SMEs.

• Working in partnership with District Councils and

Channel Chamber of commerce we intend to

reach as many business as possible to engage

with our Kent Healthy Businesses Award.

Market Stalls and Workshops

Stall Holders

• The Windmill Project – Community

Allotments

• KCC Volunteering and Voluntary

Action Within Kent

• Sheppey Matters

• Health Promotion

• Healthy Club

• Explore Kent

• Adult Education

• Live it Well Website

• Kent Community Health Trust

• Health & Wellbeing Wheel

• Skip2bfit

Workshops

• Outdoors Kent

• Communities and

building resilience

• The economy and

sustainability

Next Steps

We are calling on the people of Kent to:

CONNECT

BE ACTIVE

TAKE NOTICE

KEEP LEARNING

GIVE

GROW

www.kent.gov.uk/health