Kingston Bayside Health & Wellbeing Strategic Directions 2009-2013

As part of their commitment to an integrated approach to health and wellbeing, the Kingston Bayside Primary Care Partnership, Kingston City Council, Bayside City Council, Central Bayside Community Health Services and Bentleigh Bayside Community Health share a common vision in relation to the potential of working together towards common priorities:

 

‘The partnership is committed to planning and working collaboratively on identified health and wellbeing priorities to improve the health outcomes of the Kingston Bayside community’

 

A summary of the process and outcomes is detailed below.

 

Alternatively, please follow the links to download a four page Summary Document or the complete Kingston Bayside Health & Wellbeing Strategic Directions Paper 2009 - 2013

 

Conference Presentations

This piece of work has recently been presented by Kirsty Brown at the Australian Health Promotion Association 19th National Conference on the 31 May 2010 and by Jackie Gleeson at the 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion in Geneva, Switzerland on the 12 July 2010. 

 

Download a full version of the Poster presentation.

 

Background

Local Government, Community Health and the Primary Care Partnership are required by legislative or funding agreements to develop strategic public health/integrated health promotion plans for their communities.

A unique opportunity emerged, that post June 2009 the planning cycles aligned for the first time for each of these five local Kingston Bayside health and wellbeing plans.  This presented an exciting opportunity to undertake a truly collaborative planning process, to ensure common health and wellbeing priorities and effective integrated health promotion activity across the catchment.

 

The focus on integration supports key stakeholders and local agencies to have greater capacity to address key health and wellbeing priorities effectively, and to minimise duplicated, fragmented effort.

 

The Kingston Bayside Health and Wellbeing Strategic Directions have been developed within the context of national and state priorities and are guided by a strong commitment to working within a social model of health. 

Collaborations: planning with your community was engaged to undertake the consultation process and support the development of a planning framework in partnership with the Project Steering Committee.

 

The planning process has included:

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The collation and analysis of demographic and population health profile data for each municipality (undertaken by Martin Bonato and Associates Pty. Ltd)
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A telephone survey of 402 respondents across the municipalities of Kingston and Bayside. The survey sample was randomly generated and monitored to reflect the age profile of both municipalities as closely as possible.
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Nine small group discussions with groups identified by the Project Steering Committee.  These discussions targeted the views of young people, families, mature adults and older adults from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. 
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A face-to-face survey with 13 frail aged clients of Home and Community Care services
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Two planning workshops with representatives from local/regional organisations including government agencies, business / corporate, health and community services to consider the consultation and research findings along with their own experience to identify priority health and wellbeing issues for Kingston and Bayside.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Priorities

In considering the range of health issues identified, the partnership agencies were asked to identify priorities for the strategic directions based on the following criteria:
• Directions are supported by identified needs
• Actions are evidence based
• Actions that would benefit from a partnership approach
• Actions have the potential to achieve measurable outcomes
• There is existing commitment and capacity within the catchment to deliver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Kingston Bayside Health and Wellbeing Strategic Directions for 2009 – 2013 have identified the following three health promotion priorities:

 

 

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Promoting mental health and wellbeing

Promoting accessible and nutritious food

Promoting physical activity and active communities

 

A number of other important issues were identified through the planning process and need to be considered when addressing the areas above including:

 

• Chronic disease
• Access and transport
• Housing
• Environment and climate change
• Economic environment

 

The following neighbourhoods have been identified as priority areas for action:

 

• Clayton South / Clarinda
• Chelsea / Bonbeach
• Highett / Hampton East

 

The following population groups of particular significance have been identified:

 

• Children and Families
• Young people aged 12-25 years
• Older adults
• CALD
• Homeless
• People with a disability and their carers

 

It is anticipated that these strategic directions will inform the development of individual agency plans to facilitate coordinated and integrated health planning and avoid duplication to maximise the outcomes of health promotion investment in Kingston and Bayside.

 

For more detailed information, please download the complete Kingston Bayside Health & Wellbeing Strategic Directions Paper 2009 - 2013