Healthy Kingston Strategy

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Healthy Kingston Strategy Agreed March 2006

The Healthy Kingston Strategy aims to promote Kingston as a healthy and caring place to live.

It acknowledges our role in health promotion and outlines how we propose to fulfil this. It has been produced, in consultation with local health services and voluntary organisations to demonstrate Kingston Council's commitment to health promotion.

How to get a copy of the Healthy Kingston Strategy

The strategy is on these webpages (see below) or you can download a full copy of the document at the end of this page.

The strategy can also be made available on request in large print, on audio cassette tape, on computer disc, in Braille, and in other community languages. We are registered with typetalk.

To request a copy please contact:
Reception and Information Services
Community Services
Guildhall 1
Kingston
KT1 1EU

Telephone: 020 8547 6008 (voice and minicom).

The meaning of 'health' and why Kingston Council has a role

'Health' is more than doctors, nurses and hospitals; it has been most famously described, by the World Health Organisation, as "not merely the absence of disease but a complete state of social, physical and mental wellbeing".

The government has promoted this more positive view of health in the public health White Paper, 'Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation'. (See appendix 1)

The paper has two key aims:

• To improve the health of the population as a whole by increasing the length of people's lives and the number of years people spend free from illness
• To improve the health of the worse off in society and to narrow the health gap.

The government also acknowledges the range of economic, social and environmental factors, which need to be considered to achieve these aims for health improvement.

We have a very significant impact on the economic, social and environmental factors affecting health through our work on, among others, education, housing, social services, employment and transport.

This means that in conjunction with the Health Authority and other local agencies, we have a key role in improving the health of people in Kingston.

Chapters	Details
Chapter 1	Why have a health strategy?
Chapter 2	How the Council can help make a difference
Chapter 3	Examples of how Council action can affect health
Chapter 4	What the Council plans to do

Appendices	Title
Appendix 1	National and Local framework
Appendix 2	Independent inquiry into inequalities in health report recommendations
Appendix 3	Health implications of other strategic policies
Appendix 4	Directorate health responsibilities