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West Moreton Health acknowledges the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul peoples, Traditional Custodians of the land. We recognise their continuing connection to the land, waters and community and we pay our respect to Elders past and present, and those who follow their path.
By removing systemic barriers that contribute to racial disparities in health outcomes, we can close the gap in life expectancy experienced by First Nations peoples in the West Moreton Health region. The West Moreton Health First Nations Health Equity Strategy 2022-2025 articulates key priority areas, strategies and key performance indicators which will contribute to achieving health equity for First Nations community members and reduce the gap in health outcomes for First Nations peoples.
The FN HEIP has gone through an extensive consultation process including First Nations community, elders, staff, community organisations and further prescribed stakeholders to ensure the communities needs are addressed. The West Moreton Health Executive team and Board members reviewed the FN HEIP further to strengthen the plan confirming the commitment at all levels across the organisation.
The actions included in the FN HEIP will enable West Moreton Hospital and Health Service to explore and monitor strategies to embed cultural knowledge and understanding of health while continuing to explore opportunities improve across First Nations health outcomes across our region.
West Moreton Health yarned with First Nations staff, community, Elders and prescribed stakeholders to develop the draft First Nations Health Equity Implementation Plan. We are wanting to ensure that we have captured your voices and that our Implementation Plan will work towards achieving First Nations Health Equity across our service.
To continue the co-design of the First Nations Health Equity Implementation Plan, West Moreton Health will be providing different opportunities to gain feedback from our First Nations Elder, staff, community and key stakeholders.
One way we are gathering information to inform the First Nations Health Equity Implementation Plan is via an online survey. By completing this survey, you will be involved in shaping the West Moreton Health First Nations Health Equity Implementation Plan to meet the needs of our First Nations Community.
Our Clinical Services Plan 2020-35 has been developed to identify and articulate current and future challenges in health care delivery, and how we will respond to those challenges. This plan provides a critical linkage between service delivery and our Strategic Plan. It will be used by our corporate and clinical staff to develop enabling service strategies (e.g. workforce and infrastructure), annual service plans, operational plans and for annual budget negotiations.
The West Moreton Health Digital Healthcare Strategy 2023-26 has been developed to guide WMH in delivering world-class and digitally enabled services across the region. With careful consideration and alignment with the West Moreton Health Strategic Plan 2021-25, this Strategy will articulate clear actionable targets to increase the WMH's digital capability by 2026.
The West Moreton Health Disability Services Plan 2023-26 provides an opportunity to understand the health and service needs of people with disability more deeply within our region. In addition, it enables the development of achievable and measurable actions to progress towards a more inclusive community, and to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people with disability.
Our vision is a thriving West Moreton community in which people achieve their best possible health and wellbeing. We aim to achieve this by ensuring consumers, carers and the community are partners in their healthcare. Our Consumer and Community Engagement Strategy 2018-21 outlines the processes we use to work with consumers and the community in the planning, design and evaluation of our services.
Our Clinician Engagement Strategy 2019-21 outlines our approach to engagement and the steps we will take to ensure clinicians are involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of healthcare services.
The Local Area Needs Analysis (LANA) will be used to inform and implement local strategic directions, health service planning initiatives, models of care review and service redesign. More broadly, the Department of Health will collate the LANA for each Hospital and Health Service into a statewide summary to identify system-wide priorities for Queensland.
Our Children and Young Persons Framework defines the strategic intent, the vision, the priority areas and the associated required actions, that will assist with achieving improved health and wellbeing of children and young people of the West Moreton region.
West Moreton Health (WMH) and Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN have committed to a culture of
partnership and collaboration. The WMH and PHN Older Person's Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2021-26)
has been developed to guide the way we plan and deliver community, primary and secondary health services
to support older people to stay healthy, connected and at home. Additionally, the strategy recognises the
important role families and carers play in helping to keep our older population healthy, happy, and fulfilled.
The West Moreton region End of Life Knowledge Framework is a user-friendly, practical guide to relevant education courses and resources for all health professionals and professional care givers providing care at the end of life.
The joint regional comprehensive Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, Alcohol and Other Drug Plan titled "Healthy Minds, Healthy Lives' aims to improve access to mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug services in the Darling Downs and West Moreton region.
Across the world, populations are aging rapidly as fertility and mortality rates decline while life expectancy increases. By 2050, 16 percent of the global population will be age 65 or older, compared to 10 percent of the population in 2022. This unprecedented demographic transformation is poised to place further fiscal pressure on social protection and health systems, as well as change labor dynamics. Proactive and forward-thinking policies are necessary to ensure that every person is able to age equitably, with security and dignity, and to uplift older adults to live healthy and productive lives.
Countries will need to strategically integrate an understanding of, and responsiveness to, aging across a range of policy areas at every level of government. Many countries have already taken steps to integrate aging into their strategic planning. These plans offer insights and lessons learned for policymakers, practitioners, and advocates who are working to advance age-friendly frameworks in other countries around the world and to better understand the challenges and opportunities of accelerated population aging.
To understand the varying approaches to healthy aging more deeply, and to advance more comprehensive, inclusive, whole-of-government approaches to aging, FP Analytics, the independent research division of the FP Group, partnered with AARP to identify and analyze national and subnational plans, strategies, and policies that are designed to support the overall well-being and health of older persons across all relevant areas of policymaking. This collaboration, which builds on the Innovation and Leadership in Healthy Aging report and its accompanying toolkit of case studies, establishes a Database of Action Plans on Aging (DAPA) that will be expanded and updated over time. The Database highlights defining features of national and select subnational plans, the context in which they were developed, and their achievements to date. The Database and corresponding analysis are intended to provide policymakers and healthy aging experts around the world with resources to inform their development or updating of policies and plans intended to support their aging populations.
The following report synthesizes key takeaways from the 46 national-level and four subnational-level plans, policies, and strategies included in the Database, which will continue to expand. Key takeaways include:
Mainstreaming aging, similar to the movement to mainstream gender, is a multi-dimensional strategy or plan that seeks to incorporate the concerns and needs of older people across a wide range of policy areas, such as transportation infrastructure or emergency planning. Mainstreaming aging encourages a holistic, coherent, gender-responsive, and rights-based policy approach to aging, with a goal to achieve an equitable society for all age groups
Indeed, in an independent evaluation of World Bank Support to Aging Countries, researchers identified funding, capacity-building, and research as key areas in which the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the African Development Bank (AfDB), can support countries as their populations continue to age. The ADB, for instance, has already begun to consider population aging in its work streams, with specific reference to it in its Strategy 2030
While the approach of the more recent UN Decade of Healthy Ageing highlights four key policy action areas and promotes multisectoral action for aging populations, MIPAA has acted as a foundational resource and norm-building framework for countries seeking to mainstream the needs of older persons across a wide range of policy areas since its publication in 2002. This includes promoting the adoption of national action plans on aging. Every five years, an MIPAA review is conducted by United Nations Regional Commissions. These reviews take stock of country progress toward MIPAA goals as defined in their respective MIPAA Regional Implementation Strategies, including tracking the development of national action plans on aging. As a result of these reviews, governments continue to draw on MIPAA and utilize its framework when developing and implementing plans, as several UN Regional Commissions ask countries to report progress on national plan development and implementation.
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