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Health and Sustainability Healthy Places Healthy Communities Healthy Planet Ann Marie Crosse Eco-health Promotion Officer annmarie.crosse@hse.ie

Health and Sustainability  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

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

Health and Place For people to Human health cannot be healthy, be considered in isolation. It depends they need highly on the quality of healthy the environment in which people live. environments.

Determinants of Health and Wellbeing

Healthy and Sustainable Communities  “ A Healthy Community is one where people, organisations 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 •“Eating isn’t an agricultural act alone but also a climate supporting act , and a chance to practise generosity with ea bite “ (Wendell Berry). 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

“...the families of people on the green prescription getting excited “ I’m a diabetic and my and coming to us and saying thank sugar levels have fallen, you, that the person was in a much the lowest I had been in better positive frame of mind at years ” [Male RW] ho me” [ EcoHPO] Effects of the Programme on Referred Walkers (RW) “ then something give , it (back “ these people stopped being a pain) started easing, I thought patient and became a walker well if it’s going to ease it I’m in the walking group ” [GP] going to do it...if I don’t walk I start back on the pain killers again ” [Female RW]

“ 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] Effects of the Programme on Community Walkers (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]

“.....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] Effects of the Programme on The Community “and there’s lots of young “I think the benefit overall was a people that I got to know ...I didn’t know them before massive community spirit increase, so the whole idea of community resilience and now they’re in the parish and community infrastructure, the you know and I think its lovely, lovely young people whole idea of sense of place, sense of belonging, to me that was really, really that we didn’t even know, and we meet them all now ” strong as a population health outcome ” [EcoHPO] [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

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

The Good News - Healthy Futures “ On Once we we reach each our r potential, ential, our pote tential ntial expan pands ds “  Mary Robinson

“ annmarie.crosse@hse.ie