2020-02-20 Ordinary Meeting Agenda

ORDINARY MEETING AGENDA                                                                  20 FEBRUARY 2020


4   NOOSA COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLBEING PLAN 2019-2024
    Committee Recommendation
    Moved:             Cr Stockwell
    Seconded:          Cr Jurisevic
    That Council note the report by the Coordinator Environmental Health to the Services and
    Organisation Committee Meeting dated 11 February 2020, and
    A.   Adopt the Noosa Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2019-2024, as provided at
         Attachment 1 to the report with the following amendments:
               Page 12, add a new Section 7.5 to read:
                7.5    Climate Change and its Impact on Human Health and Wellbeing
                The World Health Organisation (WHO) maintains that climate change is the
                greatest threat to global health in the 21st century (WHO, 2015). Australia’s climate
                has already begun to change and current trends indicate that this will accelerate
                over the course of this century. A changing climate is expected to affect human
                health and wellbeing (including physical and mental health) through direct and
                indirect pathways. Climate change can be framed as a risk amplifier; that is many
                of the risks associated with climate change are not new, however they are likely to
                increase in severity over time. There is no evidence available to indicate that the
                risks from climate change to health and wellbeing are not presently significant at a
                local scale, however they will increasingly become so as global warming
                accelerates.
                The Australian Medical Association has expressed strong concerns regarding the
                threat to public health and wellbeing from climate change (AMA, 2019). In
                particular, the elderly, as well as other vulnerable groups in the community, are
                more exposed to direct physical impacts of climate change and may require greater
                assistance from their family and social networks, and emergency services in
                preparing for and responding to extreme weather events.
                The collaboration of many stakeholders will help Noosa’s Health and Wellbeing
                sector to be resilient to future climate change impacts. Noosa Council is
                developing a Climate Change Adaptation Plan (CCAP), which will contain actions
                and key indicators for adapting Noosa community’s health and wellbeing to climate
                change risks. The CCAP is expected to be completed in mid-2020. It is proposed
                the Noosa Community Health and Wellbeing Action plan will seek to inform the
                CCAP where applicable, and incorporate the relevant actions from the CCAP at
                the next annual review of the Action Plan, including development of new initiatives
                based on updates to climate change projections if required.
               Page 13, Update Immunisation rates as follows:

                                                                                Noosa       Qld     Australia

                Health Status        Immunisation rates (%) (Noosa
                                     2017) (target to prevent outbreaks of
                                     vaccine-preventable disease is 95%)
                                     1-year-old                                  9088*     94*       94*
                                     2-year-old                                  8786*     92*       91*
                                     5-year-old                                  8991*     95*       95*
                *Data     Source     for   Immunisation     rates     for   Queensland       and     Australia   :
                https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/immunisation/childhood-immunisation-
                coverage/immunisation-coverage-rates-for-all-children#state-and-territory-coverage-rates



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