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Healthy Communities Consortium Helping to build healthy communities. Connecting for Healthy Communities. Peggy Schultz, Health Nexus Lorna McCue, OHCC June 8, 2011. Overview. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Healthy Communities ConsortiumHelping to build healthy communities
Peggy Schultz, Health NexusLorna McCue, OHCC
June 8, 2011
Connecting 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 Health Health Promotion and Healthy Communities Connecting for Health: Examples of Collaborations Questions/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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Illness care system 25%
Biologicalendowment, genetics 15%Physical environment 10%
Social and economicenvironment 50%
Health Status
Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch AB/NWT
* Data from CIAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research). Graph created by Saskatchewan Health. June 1997
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What is health promotion?
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
Health Promotion action means:• Build Healthy Public Policy• Create Supportive Environments• Strengthen Community Action• Develop Personal Skills• Re-orient Health Services
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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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How can we 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
Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch AB/NWT
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Examples of Collaboration
Healthy Communities – Communautés santé
Connecting the DotsHealthy 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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Healthy Communities Framework
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Connecting the Dots
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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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Connecting the Dots
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CTD – Key Features
Community led Participant drivenConnect the Dots horizontally and
vertically • Multiple sectors • multiple organizations• multiple levels
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CTD - Key Findings
Increased knowledge Increased connectionsGreater readiness for collaborationNew and strengthened partnerships
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• Draw upon the assets, resources and capacity within each community
• Take a multi-sectoral, multi-faceted approach across the continuum.
• Connect the dots in our own communities and beyond!
It takes a community to prevent a stroke!
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Networks
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Networks are everywhere
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Why map networks?
(Re)Mapping
AnalysisWeaving
and Engagemen
t
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Many ways to map
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What can be learned
• Various styles/types of leadershipWho are connectors (map & data)Who are innovators (from data)Who are influencers (from data)
• Stability & resilience of networke.g. test map without strongest people
• Opportunities for improvement
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Healthy Communities Framework
Healthy Communities Consortium
Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion & Sport
Vision: Healthy Communities working together and Ontarians leading healthy and active lives.
Goals:• Create a culture of health and well-being• Build healthy communities through coordinated action• Create policies and programs that make it easier for
Ontarians to be healthy• Enhance the capacity of community leaders to work
together on healthy living
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HCF - Guiding Principles
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• Empower communities using a shared decision-making model
• Strengthen partnerships within and between communities and between local and provincial partners
• Mobilize a variety of community partners and sectors for change
• Focus on those at-risk for poor health to reduce disparities
• Build on research, evidence and experience• Accountable to communities and the ministry through
measurable outcomes• Work toward sustainable programs and strategies
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Healthy Communities Partnerships
• Promote coordinated planning and action among community partners to create policies that make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy.
• Network mapping
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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 ServicesConsultation 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 [email protected]
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Q&A and Discussion
• How are you connecting with others?
• How else could we be connecting?
• What is helping us? What is hindering us?
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