Sustaining a Healthy Future Taking action on Climate Change

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Sustaining a Healthy Future Taking action on
Climate Change

• Dr Nick Salfield
• Deputy Regional Director of PH East Midlands

Climate Change Event GOEM 30 October 2008
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Aims

• To promote, for public benefit, advances in
  public health
• To maintain the highest possible standards of
  public health practice and competence
• To give authoritative guidance and advocate on
  public health issues

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Features of Sustaining a Healthy Future

• FPH Policy Committee agreed as priority and
  signed off
• Written and designed in-house
• Published January 2008
• Aim to galvanise urgent action within NHS at
  local level prompted by collective consensus
  across broad range of national organisations
• Short
• Accurate and evidence-based
• Accessible
• Targeted
• Context
• Practical tools summaries, signposts, action
  checklists

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Context Effects

• Between 1961 and 1990 global temperature
  increased by 0.6C
• WHO estimate impact 150,000 deaths and 5.5M DALYs
  PA
• Heat-related deaths
• Food and water shortages
• Malnutrition
• Water and food-borne diseases
• Deaths and injuries from flooding
• Migration-related health effects

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Context - Causes

• Energy to heat, light and run homes and
  workplaces
• Transport for shopping, leisure, at work and
  goods distribution
• Food industry (production, transport, retail)
• Production of all other goods and services

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Context Targets

• National Reducing carbon dioxide emissions by
  60 by 2050 and 26-32 by 2020 (Baseline 1990)
• Individual
• NHS National
• Reducing primary energy consumption by 15 by
  2010 (Baseline 2000)
• All NHS buildings have specific energy efficient
  targets

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Context Securing the Future

• UK government strategy for sustainable
  development
• Priorities
• Sustainable consumption and production
• Climate change and energy
• Protecting natural resources and enhancing the
  environment
• Creating sustainable communities and a fairer
  world
• Other global and national strategies

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Tools

• Action Checklists
• Individuals
• Talk to people
• Carbon audit
• Action Plan
• Examples
• Organisations
• Carbon audit
• Establish a staff group
• Action Plan
• Set Targets

• Organisational Strategies
• Good Corporate Citizen
• Champion
• Board Strategy and business plans
• Commissioning
• Care pathways
• Integrated impact assessments
• Partnerships

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Tools

• Other Resources
• Sustainability and health impact assessment tool.
• Further information
• key organisations
• references

• Action Checklists (contd)
• Local Community
• Talk
• Role models
• Planning and transport
• Fuel poverty
• Obesity strategies local food, reduce animal
  product consumption, physical activity
• MH promotion
• Eco-schools programme

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Partnership Working

• Sign up by 19 organisations
• Faculty of Public Health
• Sustainable Development Commission
• NHS East of England (lead region)
• NHS Confederation
• National Heart Forum
• The Commission for Architecture and the Built
  Environment
• UK Public Health Association
• British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
• Climate and Health Council

• Local Government Association
• The Royal Institute of Public Health
• Royal Society of Health
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
• Sustrans
• Scottish Healthy Environment Network
• The Carbon Trust
• Royal College of Physicians of London
• Association of Directors of Public Heath
• Sustain

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Impact

• Dissemination to broad spectrum of organisations
• Positive profile for FPH now recognised as
  leading player in this agenda
• Raised Climate Change up national agenda
• Pulled together people and organisations who
  would not usually work together
• Joint statement to health leaders
• Practical tools for public health specialists and
  others
• Gathering momentum
• DH support and finances
• Partnership with NHS Sustainable Development Unit
• Public Statements by President of FPH