Community Health & Wellbeing Week 2013

We need a shift to reach our vision The best possible health and wellbeing for everyone‌‌.

Shifts that need to happen: • From downstream focus to upstream focus • From a narrow focus on physical health to a big picture focus on a complete sense of physical wellbeing • From health disparities to health equity • From fragmented non-system focused on sickness to an integrating health and wellbeing system

Community Health & Wellbeing Week 2013

Past CHWW: Different themes each year

Our theme for the next three years (at least)

LEAD UP TO CHWW: EVIDENCE BASED STORYTELLING Each week we released a story about how a centre is already working towards shifting the conversation. It featured a program or initiative about work in one of the 8 domains. Some centres used these emails as a “template� by inserting local information from their own centres into the emails.

They were well received as the stories were shared across social media platforms.

#CHWW2013

103 events across Ontario

‌ with many different themes and formats

“Youth Celebration of Community Health & Wellbeing�

An event that was organized by the Youth Services Network, the Griffin Centre and Toronto Public Health

Official launch at the Access Alliance AccessPoint on Danforth

Panel discussion presented by the Social Services Network in Markham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJx3ZQeKpCY&feature=youtu.be

CHWW AT QUEENS PARK

What Deb Matthews said….

During this week, providers are focusing on broadening the health care conversation, concentrating on the root causes of poor health. In particular, this week we reflect on our collective responsibility to keep Ontarians healthy so that they don’t end up in our hospital emergency rooms.

I’d like to give a special mention to Ontario’s community health centres, our aboriginal health access centres, our nurse-practitioner-led clinics and our family health teams, who are crucial partners in helping us move this important conversation forward.

What PC Health Critic said‌ Experts agree that these problems can be addressed and financial burdens on the acute care system eased by shifting from a downstream emphasis on treating illness to an upstream approach that prevents illnesses before they take hold.

This was confirmed by the Canadian Index of Wellbeing in its second annual report and composite index on the wellbeing of Canadians, released last fall.

Fortunately, I believe the potential for this shift is quickly emerging, as this is the approach that’s applied at Ontario’s community health centres and other community-governed primary health care models throughout the province.

What the NDP said….

The NDP is a strong supporter of that shift in conversation on health care in Ontario, to focus on what we call the upstream approach; that is, to prevent illness and to promote good health.

Our party helped bring in Medicare in Ontario 50 years ago, but now it is time to put in place what Tommy Douglas used to call “the second part of medicare”; that is, the conversations about keeping people healthy.

Mark your calendars‌ 2014: September 28th to October 4th

The conversation will continue‌ 1. The release of the report on Ontario by the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (communityhealthandwellbeing. org) 2. Storytelling around CIW pilot sites 3. Joint primary health care and public health conference in June 2014