Dundee Healthy Living Initiative

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Dundee Healthy Living Initiative

• Sheila McMahon
• Team Leader (Strategic Development)
• Presentation at NHS Scotland Event
• Better Health Better Care
• Wednesday 25th June 2008

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Dundee Healthy Living Initiative

• Tackle health inequalities issues using a
  community development approach
• Designated, deprived communities
• Partnership funding
• Multi-disciplinary team
• Wide range of activities
• Community involvement
• Volunteer development

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Community Development

• Community development aims to make sure
• that local people are involved in defining and
• taking action on the issues that affect their
  lives.
• It seeks to involve those who are usually
  excluded from decision-making processes and to
  challenge discrimination and inequality.
• Association of Community Workers

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DHLI activities

• Healthy eating
• Weight reduction
• Physical activities
• Smoking cessation
• Mood/ Stress management
• Health Information Points
• Health checks/ Talks
• Keep Well

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Facts and figures 2006 - 7

• 13,685 beneficiaries
• 3,732 users were men
• 9,895 users were females
• 7,425 users were aged between 16 -64yrs
• 540 disabled people
• 387 ethnic minorities
• Operated from 76 community venues

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Task Force priorities and principles

• The high economic, social and health burden
  imposed by mental illness, and the corresponding
  requirement to improve mental wellbeing
• The big killer diseases and associated risk
  factors
• Engaging individuals, families and communities
  most at risk of poor health in services and
  decisions relevant to their health

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Positive Steps evidence based messages for
mental health improvement

• Lifestyle
• Learning
• Creativity
• Valuing yourself and others
• Social support
• Getting involved and making a contribution
• Contact with nature
• Friedli, Oliver et al on behalf of
  NHS Health Scotland, 2007

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Community walking groups

• 11 Walking Groups across the city
• All levels of fitness
• Local and out of town
• During the day and at weekends
• Run, promoted and attended by wide range of local
  people
• Different routes into groups
• Different levels of involvement
• Opportunities for progression

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Outcomes

• Increased social contact
• Increased levels of physical activity
• Improved mental wellbeing
• Improvements in symptoms of physical and mental
  conditions
• Integration of people with mental illness,
  learning difficulties and physical disabilities
• Increased personal and social development
• Improved access to training
• Transferable skills and increased employability

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Physical activity survey

• 2 week snapshot survey
• 124 respondents (44 of total)
• 94 reported improvements in physical health
• 88 reported improvements in mental health
• - social contact
• - improved mood
• - more confidence
• - less depressed

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• Reasons for attending DHLI groups
• - informal
• - locally based
• - low cost
• - suitable level
• 70 reported they were unable to use other
  facilities due to reasons of cost, transport
  issues and lack of creche facilities
• 98 classed DHLI physical activities as good or
  very good

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Keep Well

• Health Coach service
• Signposting to DHLI activities and other services
• Supported access
• Establishment of new groups and services
• Community screenings
• Part of Keep Well Project Team
• Feedback to service providers
• Patient stories
• Evaluation

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Community Sub Group

• Representative group of project users
• Variety of ages, both genders
• Members of Management Group
• Feed into Public Partnership Forum and LCP
  structures
• Local and national sounding board
• Links with elected members
• Project promotion
• Individual testimonies

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Contact details

• Sheila McMahon
• Team Leader (Strategic Development)
• Dundee Healthy Living Initiative
• Mitchell Street Centre
• Mitchell Street
• Dundee DD2 2LJ
• Tel. [phone]
• www. dundeehealth.co.uk