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Governance and Evaluation
The Public Health and CommunityWellbeing Plan
2015-2020 will form part of Council’s Strategic
Management Plan framework, as per Section 122 of
the Local Government Act 1999.
Processes are in place to ensure monitoring, evaluation, and
review of the implementation and effectiveness of the Plan, in
collaboration with Council’s Public Health Partner Authorities.
A range of reporting systems will ensure accountability, and
inform the community of the progress of the Plan
(See Section 9).
The South Australian Department for Health and Ageing
(referred to as ‘SA Dept Health’ in this Plan), in conjunction
with Councils and other State agencies, are developing a set
of indicators (data sets) which will become a standard and
consistent core set for the ongoing evaluation of Public
Health Plans.
Commonwealth funding bodies also have requirements
regarding evaluation processes for health and wellbeing
programs.
A range of projects are underway to improve the evaluation
and measurement of health and wellbeing outcomes. For
example, Council’s Home and Community Care Team (HACC)
have joined with SAMHRI and seven other Councils to develop
a prototype that supports and measures wellbeing within the
‘frail aged’ community.
The Public Health and CommunityWellbeing Plan will
incorportate a suite of key information (‘indicators’) that are
considered to reflect and track important factors over the
5 year span of the Plan, including –
1.
the changing nature of the population and its social and
economic circumstances (‘social determinants’)
2.
the changing nature of the urban living environment
(‘environmental determinants’)
3.
key aspects of the population’s health profile and trends,
and
4.
the implementation and effectiveness of the Plan itself, via
tracking of activities and outcomes.