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Appendix Four: Keeping people healthy
1. Aspirational statement:
All West Coasters will live healthy lives.
2 Project overview
Many of the public health and health promotion activities delivered on the West Coast by the
West Coast DHB (WCDHB), West Coast PHO (WCPHO) and Community & Public Health (CPH)
address the same health outcomes. Some degree of joint planning and implementation of health
promotion activities take place at present however there is a need to shift the focus from the
sharing of information and co-operation to effective and meaningful „collaboration‟. It has been
determined that each of the three organisations focuses on the following areas that will serve
as the basis of joint planning and collaboration for „keeping West Coast people healthy‟:
tobacco control/smokefree
improving immunisation coverage
increasing physical activity and nutrition.
This initiative is designed to further enhance public health and health promotional activities in
the above three areas through the production of a joint health promotion plan and
implementation strategy that will be shared between the organisations. The first year of this
plan describes common areas of delivery in detail and indicates the breadth of activity that will
be planned jointly at the end of three years.
There are other areas of health promotion delivery that do not cross over between
organisations and are not incorporated as part of this plan. The details of PHO specific
activities are however detailed in the deliverables section.
3 Problem definition
For the last three years the West Coast District Health Board (DHB), West Coast Primary
Health Organisation (PHO) and Community & Public Health (CPH) have carried out some degree
of joint planning around health promotion activities. This joint planning was designed to bring
the three organisations together and to identify areas of commonality where each could
complement others work. This often focused on the sharing of information and the
implementation of joint initiatives where all three organisations contributed to a project. To
enhance this joint planning and initiate more effective collaboration the Healthy West Coast
Governance Group, with management level membership across the three organisations was
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