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Health and Sustainability

Healthy Places Healthy Communities Healthy Planet

Ann Marie Crosse Eco-health Promotion Officer annmarie.crosse@hse.ie

 New Fundamentals of Sustainability  Health and Sustainability- The Co-Benefits  Ecosystems and Health  Creating Healthy and Sustainable Places  Supporting Sustainable Communities  Healthy Gardening  Green Prescription  Sustainable Health System

Health and Sustainability

The New Fundamentals

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” The Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future 1987

UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Climate Change

Life in the fast lane

Health Impacts

• Depression
• Stress
• Obesity
• Anti Social Behaviour
• Social Exclusion
• Lack of identity
• Health Inequalities

Economics and Sustainability

Change Direction ?

Eco-Health Approach

Earth System

Provisioning Services Regulating Services Cultural Services Supporting Services

Water Food Timber Climate regulation Flood regulation Green spaces Cultural Heritage Nutrient cycling

Human health cannot be considered in

• isolation. It depends

highly on the quality of the environment in which people live.

For people to be healthy, they need healthy environments.

Health and Place

Determinants of Health and Wellbeing

Healthy and Sustainable Communities

 “A Healthy Community is one where people,

• rganisations and local institutions work together to

improve the social, economic and environmental conditions that make people healthy”  A Sustainable Community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient.

Healthy Places – Healthy People Healthy Planet

Community Gardens

The Outdoor Classroom

• “Eating isn’t an agricultural act alone but also a climate supporting act , and a chance to practise generosity with ea

bite “ (Wendell Berry).

• “Eating isn’t an agricultural act alone but also a climate supporting act , and a chance to practise generosity with ea

bite “ (Wendell Berry).

• “Eating isn’t an agricultural act alone but also a climate supporting act , and a chance to practise

generosity with each bite “ (Wendell Berry).

The Green Prescription A Health Professionals written advice to be active in the outdoors.

Natural Capital Natural Capital

Community Setting Community Development Approach

“I’m a diabetic and my sugar levels have fallen, the lowest I had been in years” [Male RW] “then something give, it (back pain) started easing, I thought well if it’s going to ease it I’m going to do it...if I don’t walk I start back on the pain killers again” [Female RW]

Effects of the Programme on Referred Walkers (RW)

“...the families of people on the green prescription getting excited and coming to us and saying thank you, that the person was in a much better positive frame of mind at home” [EcoHPO] “these people stopped being a patient and became a walker in the walking group” [GP]

Effects of the Programme

• n Community Walkers (CW)

“building up a fitness level over the weeks, I have lost a fair bit of weight on the walk like...I do a lot more walking as a result of taking part in the walk because I see the benefit, it becomes a little bit addictive sort of thing you know” [Male CW] “It’s also good for your mind, it’s good to kind of clear your head and you know to have thinking time aswell” [Female CW]

Effects of the Programme

• n The Community

“.....but because we have a bond now with the walking club you would meet them in the shop and wave hello to them you know because you have some kind of connection whereas before you wouldn’t really have” [Female CW] “I think the benefit overall was a massive community spirit increase, so the whole idea of community resilience and community infrastructure, the whole idea of sense of place, sense of belonging, to me that was really, really strong as a population health outcome” [EcoHPO] “and there’s lots of young people that I got to know ...I didn’t know them before and now they’re in the parish you know and I think its lovely, lovely young people that we didn’t even know, and we meet them all now” [Female CW]

Benefits

 Systems Thinking & Systems Change  Economic Savings  Health and Wellbeing  Environmental Impacts  Meet Public Sector Targets  Public Sector Leadership  Corporate Social Responsibility  Leverage

 Whole System Approach  Revaluing our Assets and Resources to achieve integrated and equitable outcomes  People & Community Participation  Policy change  Re Energise Leadership.

A few important points …..

The Good News - Healthy Futures

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 Mary Robinson

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