2020-02-17 General Committee Meeting Notes

RECOMMENDATIONS ONLY – NOT THE FINAL DECISION OF COUNCIL
GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING                                                     17 FEBRUARY 2020


    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*



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