Wellbeing Strategy
Health and Wellbeing Board
26th January 2021
Our vision
for improving the health and wellbeing of local people and reducing
health inequalities
• Everyone in Brighton & Hove will have the best opportunity to live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life
Our ambitions
• People will live more years in good health
• The gap in healthy life expectancy between people living in the most and least disadvantaged areas of the city will be reduced.
Brighton & Hove will be a place which helps people to be healthy.
• Through
• Inclusive economic growth.
• Planning of major developments and transport schemes.
• More people travelling actively,
• Improved air quality
• Safe, warm and healthy homes and prevention of homelessness.
• A whole city approach to food and wellbeing
• Green & open spaces, sports & leisure facilities, libraries and community spaces.
• Arts and culture, • Supporting carers.
• Challenging normalisation of substance misuse and excessive alcohol consumption
The health and wellbeing of children and young people in Brighton & Hove will be improved.
• A focus on early years
• Promoting healthy lifestyles and resilience in all CYP
• Tackling risks to good emotional health and wellbeing
• Services will ‘think family’ and intervene early to prevent problems escalating.
The health and wellbeing of working age adults Brighton & Hove will be improved.
• Improve mental health and wellbeing
• Eat well, move more, drink less and stop smoking!
• Better sexual health
• Workplace wellbeing
• Support into work for disabled people, people with long term conditions, and the long term unemployed.
A place where people can age well
• The contribution of people of all ages will be nurtured and celebrated. Brighton & Hove as both an age friendly city and a dementia friendly city.
• Design of the physical environment and in planning housing developments.
• Reducing loneliness and social isolation
• Reducing risk of falls.
• Helping people to live independently by services that connect them with their communities.
The experiences of those at the end of their life, whatever their age, will be improved.
• A city wide approach will be developed to improve health and wellbeing at the end of life and to help communities to develop their own approaches to death, dying, loss and caring.
• More people will die at home or in the place that they choose.
• Support for families, carers and the bereaved will be enhanced.
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• Partnership and Collaboration
• Health and wellbeing is everyone's business
• Health and Work
• Prevention and Empowerment
• Reducing Health Inequalities
• Right care/Right place/Right time
• Engagement and Involvement
• Keeping people safe
• JSNA Updates – January 2021
• Census data – expected January 2022
• Opportunities to optimise use of shared data sets
• Metric development for the 4 wells is active work in progress