Croatian Healthy Cities Network Prof Selma ogori WHO Euro - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Croatian Healthy Cities Network Prof Selma Šogorić

WHO Euro Healthy Cities project  Since 1988 – Zagreb „0” conference  Project Six Phase 2014 – 2018  78 designated European cities  22 accredited national networks with around 1500 member cities

Healthy Cities as a vehicle for „Health for all” strategy implementation at the local level Strategic objectives: stronger equity and better governance

Croatian Healthy Cities Network  Croatian Healthy Cities Network is an open association of cities and counties that are committed to improving the health and the quality of life of their inhabitants  Our approach to health in community and planning for health starts from the very citizens and local communities towards national level ( bottom up )  The network is organized and hosted ( sheltered ) within the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb Medical School which is one of the oldest schools of public health in Europe, founded in 1927  Translated directly, it is the “School of People’s Health,” and (as the name suggests) it has always strived to bridge public health theory with practice

Croatian Healthy Cities Network  Healthy cities enabled academics to access the real world of needs and opportunities, and reach and support citizens in the creation of a better life. This marriage of research and practice yields credible, powerful results that seizes the attention of local, national and international policy- makers  CHCN is committed to upgrade local capacity for health resources planning and management with the aim of improving: the quality of the (physical and social) environment; the conditions that create healthy lifestyles; and access to services that meet the needs of citizens  By enhancing city and county administration public health and management competences we are striving to ensure preconditions for health of all citizens (introducing new quality in local planning and management for health)

Academic community Early social medicine connected health and wealth About century later academic community provided evidence how harmful to health are poverty, low social gradient, social isolation, unemployment, inadequate housing conditions, etc. and clarified that peoples lives and health are not influenced only by characteristics of the individual (genetic and behavioral) that much stronger impact on their health is made by the characteristic of the social group that they belong to Inequity in health is a consequence of unequal life opportunities There is a need to create conditions conductive to health, strengthen health and social support programs, increase capacity

How to gain better health? - problems are numerous, demands and expectations are increasing, resources are limited, the wisdom of creation of “good” health policy is - in prioritizing (selection of the limited number of solvable priorities and their solution under defined timeframe), - consensus building (when deciding on priorities political decision makers have to take into account community and professionals opinion) and - cooperation and networking within and with other sectors (horizontally and vertically)

Simultaneously intervening through different levels - Determinants of health (prerequisites promotion) - Public health protection (interventions) - Health service provision

Determinants Healthy public policy - policy that recognize health as a value Target audience Policy makers

Public health protection Professional public health capacity building Leading diagnosis and intervention needs assessment, priority setting, intervention strategy planning (locally, regionally, nationally)

Health services provision reorientation and quality improvements

Collaboration and networking within and with other sectors, NGOs (horizontally and vertically)

Youth early Family health early years drinking parenting skills, kindergartens, free time activities, single parent families, early intervention, family violence …

Family health - Visiting Health promoting hospitals nurses interventions and services (Postpartum depression, breastfeeding support groups, single parent families support)

Professor Slobodan Lang, President CHCN 1992 – 2016 „For 90 years we’ve practiced health policy development with ideas, research, networking, education and by facing challenges and leading action. We have done a lot and have many experiences. We have been, we are and we will continue to be strong.We have no fear of the future. We are happy to face new challenges. By helping people in need we will learn new knowledge and become better people ourselves