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Public Health Services Review To improve delivery of MLHU services to residents of Middlesex County

Agenda • What is Public Health? • Mandate & Standards • Collaboration • Service Delivery Model • Budget Process & Municipal Funding • Public Health Services Review

What is Public Health? • Focuses on the population as a whole and works upstream of acute and primary care • Population Health Approach integrates: – Social Determinants of Health – Healthy Behaviors – Healthy Communities – Population Health Assessment • Partnership with governments, non-government and community organizations is essential for the delivery of this work

Our Mandate • Mandate: – Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA) • Requirements: – Ontario Public Health Standards (OPHS)

Ontario Public Health Population Health Assessment Standards Chronic Disease Healthy Prevention and Food Safety Health Equity Environments Well-Being Infectious and Healthy Growth Communicable Effective Public Immunization Health Practice and Development Disease Prevention and Control Emergency Substance Use Safe Water School Health Management and Prevention

Collaboration with Municipalities • Municipalities, including those in Middlesex County, have played and continue to play a vital role in many of the Top Public Health Achievement of the 20 th Century. These include: – Motor Vehicle Safety – Clean Water and Sanitation – Tobacco Control Policies – Fluoridation of Drinking Water – Supporting a safe and healthier food systems

MLHU Program & Service Delivery

MLHU Program & Service Delivery

MLHU Budget Total Budget $35,384,706 Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care (cost-shared) $16,630,229 City of London $6,095,059 Ministry of Child and Youth Services $5,632,766 Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care (100%) $4,284,436 County of Middlesex $1,160,961 User Fees $828,090 Public Health Agency of Canada $428,261 Other Offset Revenue $218,378 Public Health Ontario $106,526

Municipal Funding • MLHU municipal funding requests have been held at 0% for the last 14 years

PBMA • Every health organization has limited resources and the need to make choices • A resource allocation process that aims to – Better align resources with strategic priorities and objectives of the organization – Improve transparency and rigour (for greater accountability) – Improve staff/public ownership of decision making process • MLHU has been able to reallocate over $7 million of our $35 million dollar budget to maximize the impact our services have on the community.

Public Health Services Review To improve delivery of MLHU services to residents of Middlesex County

Key Deliverables Prepare • Environmental Scan • April • Community Consultations • Survey of municipal Assess councillors • May - July • Key informant interviews from each municipality Formulate • Literature Scan • June - July • Population Health Assessment Communicate • Review of the Availability and • August - September Utilization of Services • Asset Mapping Deliver • Development of • August - December Recommendations • Implementation Planning Close • 2019

Next Steps Municipal Councils • Complete the survey • Identify a key informant who is available for a 30 minute interview MLHU • Attendance at all municipal councils in Middlesex County • Data collection and analysis • Development of recommendations • Implementation planning

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