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POSITIVE CHOICES FOR BETTER HEALTH IN A GROWING CITY - DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2014/15
Meeting: 30/07/2015 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 7)
7 DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2014/15 
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Additional documents:
Minutes:
Meeting: 20/07/2015 - Other Webcast Events (Item 1.)
Additional documents:
- Director of Public Health annual report 2014_15 for printing, 07/07/2015 Cabinet, item 1.
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- Webcast for Positive Choices for Better Health in a Growing City - Director of Public Health Annual Report 2014/15
Meeting: 07/07/2015 - Cabinet (Item 16)
Kelechi Nnoaham (Director of Public Health) will submit his independent report entitled ‘Positive choices for better health in a growing city’ which will focus on Thrive Plymouth (4-4-54) and will be the baseline report for the ten year programme to reduce health inequalities in Plymouth.
Additional documents:
- Director of Public Health annual report 2014_15 for printing, item 16
PDF 7 MB
- Webcast for POSITIVE CHOICES FOR BETTER HEALTH IN A GROWING CITY - DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2014/15
Minutes:
Kelechi Nnoaham (Director of Public Health) presented his independent report entitled ‘Positive Choices for Better Health in a Growing City’ which focussed on Thrive Plymouth (4-4-54) and would be the baseline report for the 10 year programme to reduce health inequalities in Plymouth.
Councillor McDonald (Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Public Health) sought approval of the recommendations in the Cabinet report.
In response to questions, Cabinet Members were advised that -
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employers were increasing concerned about the health of their workforce with pressures to increase productivity; |
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the Director of Public Health was considering - |
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the right way to deliver consistent messages to differing sectors of the city’s population; and |
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social marketing to tackle increasing consumption of alcohol at home by some sectors of the population; |
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the Health and WellBeing Board would link with other partnerships and would consider how the city could respond to the challenges with a view to reporting back in approximately four months. |
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The Director of Public Health thanked his team for all their work and on behalf of Cabinet, the Chair also added his thanks to Kelechi Nnoaham and everyone involved in the production of the report.
Alternative options considered and reasons for the decision –
As set out in the report.
Agreed that the report is endorsed and commended to the Health and Wellbeing Board.