2018-12-11 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 11 - Draft Noosa Community Health & Wellbeing Plan 2019-2024

policies from the following sources:
     World Health Organization
     National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions
     Queensland Health - Health and Wellbeing Strategic Framework 2017 to 2026
     Noosa LGA Profile-data (including data from the Primary Health Network - PHN) on
        demographics, social determinants of health, health status, services, stakeholder feedback
     Notifiable conditions data from the Sunshine Coast Public Health Unit (PHU) including
            o Gastrointestinal-food borne illness data
            o Vaccine preventable disease
            o Mosquito borne – Ross River & Barmah Forest
            o Sexually transmissible
            o Blood borne – Hep. B & C
            o Zoonotic – Lyssavirus (Australian Bat)
     Noosa Regional Wellbeing Survey



7. Context
This Plan has important linkages to the World Health Organization, federal, and state, strategic
policies and planning mechanisms including:
     The WHO’s 9 voluntary non communicable disease targets for 2015
     National Health Priority Areas
     National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions
     Queensland Health – Health and Wellbeing Strategic Framework 2017 to 2026
     Noosa Corporate Plan 2017-2037
     Noosa Social Strategy
     Noosa Sport and Active Recreation Plan 2018
     Noosa Shire Local Economic Plan
     Noosa Transport Strategy 2017-2028
     Noosa Planning Scheme


7.1     World Health Organisation targets
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is
concerned with international public health. Its current priorities include communicable diseases, in
particular HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and tuberculosis; the mitigation of the effects of non-
communicable diseases such as sexual and reproductive health, development, and aging;
nutrition, food security and healthy eating; occupational health; substance abuse; and driving the
development of reporting, publications, and networking.

Largely because of WHO’s work, issues of health and wellbeing are on the agenda of policy
makers in all sectors and at all levels of government across the world.

At the First International Conference on Health Promotion, Ottawa, 21 November 1986 Health
promotion was defined as:

       the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To
       reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group
       must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope
       with the environment.

       Health is therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is
       a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical
       capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but

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