Health - our role at Aylesbury Vale District Council
We want everyone living and working in Aylesbury Vale, of all ages, to have a healthy life.
Although the Health Service plays a vital role in treating illness, other everyday factors can determine how healthy we are, for example, employment, income, housing, diet , exercise and social networks.
Promoting the positive health and well-being of communities living in Vale is an important part of what we do and is embedded in the delivery of our key services, for example;
- Leisure and Community
- Employment and economic development
- Planning for future growth and development
- Community Safety
- Environmental health
- Parks and open spaces
- Housing
- Community and Voluntary Sector Grants
- Planning
How are we promoting health?
We are working in partnership with a wide range of agencies to deliver the healthy Communities Strategy (attached below). The strategy’s focus is on prevention of ill – health and the promotion of healthier lifestyles.
The three aims of the strategy are:
- All Buckinghamshire residents lead healthier, happier and longer lives
- Reduce health inequalities between different geographical areas and groups of people within Buckinghamshire
- Create an environment that supports the health and well – being of the population
Work currently underway for 2009/10 :
- Address childhood poverty
- Improve workplace health
- Promote physical activity through walking
- Income maximisation
- Tackling heart disease, diabetes and strokes
- Affordable warmth
- Reducing carbon emissions
- Supporting older people through the Agewell partnership
- Reducing childhood obesity
- Increasing adult participation in sport
- Tackling homelessness and poor housing
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