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DPH Annual Report 2015 The role of communities in improving the health and wellbeing of the population Mike Sandys Director of Public Health

Demographic Change Changing demography across Leicestershire over the next 25 years • an estimated 56% growth in people aged 65-84 years; • a 190% growth in people aged 85 years and over • a 2% reduction in the number of working age adults • more people living for longer with long term conditions and age related disabilities;

Life Expectancy • Life expectancy for males – 77.8 years in 2000-02 – 80.1 years in 2010-12 • Life expectancy for females – 81.8 years in 2000-02 – 84.0 years in 2010-12 • Healthy life expectancy – 64.9 years for males – 66.7 years for females

Community Centred Approaches for Health and Wellbeing

Prevention Target Operating Model

Recommendations - Leader The council should lead on programmes of work and support initiatives that increase place and asset-based community led interventions. The council should do this by providing opportunities for community capacity building, by including community-based approaches in service commissioning and by disseminating and sharing of good practice.

Recommendations - Partner Blaby District Council delivers a wide range services that can improve and protect residents health and wellbeing such as, leisure, housing, planning and environmental health. The Public Health Department should work in partnership with districts to use a community participatory approach to assess the health impact of their services and policies to enable them to promote the positive impacts and mitigate the negative.

Recommendations - Advocate The Public Health Department should continue to advocate that health is integral to all of the council’s policies. It should also develop robust community engagement that will feed into a Social Value Framework. This will ensure all major projects take into account community views and knowledge to improve and protect health and wellbeing.

Blaby leading by example • Sport & Physical Activity Commissioning with Public Health • Exercise Referral scheme recognised as best practice and model adopted by Rutland CC • Staying Healthy Partnership links County policy to District delivery • A Place To Grow – good example of community asset approach / early intervention • Volunteer Ranger scheme at parks & open spaces. • Proactive relationship between Public Health & BDC…