Population Health Advisory Board Report

POPULATION HEALTH ADVISORY BOARD

REPORT

Our purpose is ‘to provide advice to the Pegasus Health Charitable Limited Board on ways that Pegasus can continue to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities in the Canterbury population and beyond’.

In 2018, the Pegasus Population Health Advisory Board (PHAB) reviewed relevant population health data and developed the following priority areas with an overarching priority of improving equity:

Reduce Pacific ambulatory sensitive hospitalisation (ASH) rates for children aged 0-4 years Improve oral health Reduce amenable mortality.

You can read more about our work later in this report.

Ann Richardson

Chair, Population Health Advisory Board