Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 66
Population Health
Population Health works to protect and promote
the health of the local population.
We recognise that many personal, local and global
factors affect health and illness. Our services work
with partners to deliver a comprehensive range of
high quality, evidence-based health programs to
the people living in Sydney Local Health District.
In 2021-22 Population Health paused many
programs or pivoted to virtual during the COVID-19
pandemic response. Community face-to-face
programs resumed in Term 2, 2022.
Highlights:
• Continued to support the COVID-19 pandemic
response, establishing the Canterbury
Community Leaders Forum for ongoing
consultation between the Chief Executive,
staff and community leaders to gather
essential insights and establish accessible,
community-trusted settings for COVID-19
testing and vaccination clinics; interpreters
and Cultural Support Workers provided inlanguage concierge, cultural liaison, and
health care interpreting to assist Culturally
and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) patients
navigating COVID-19 clinics and vaccination
centres; developed tailored Communications
Plan for CALD communities; outreach to local
retail strips; supported Outbreak Management
Teams and vulnerable population strategies
in social housing settings and contact tracing
surge support.
• Established Priority Populations Programs to
build on the expertise of the HIV and Related
Programs (HARP) Unit with an expanded
scope to include Women’s, Men’s and LGBTIQ+
programs of work for the District.
• Print, radio and digital multilingual
media campaigns:
– Developed 450+ multilingual resources
and information packages across 20
languages.
– Delivered 486 social media posts and
targeted ads, reaching 305,486+ people
and 55,706+ community members
engaging with our health messages.
• Piloted a breast cancer concierge program
providing one-to-one, in-language telephone
support to Arabic, Cantonese, Italian, Korean,
Mandarin and Vietnamese speaking women
diagnosed with breast cancer.
• Completed more than 65,000 interpreting
appointments through the Sydney Health Care
Interpreter Service including telephone, video
conferencing, face to face and home visits.
• Established Healthy Ageing Network through
the Health Promotion Unit with representatives
from local councils, NGOs, local health district
and community services for older people.
• Developed animated videos supporting bowel
screening in the Aboriginal community with
supporting media campaigns.
• Launched Jarjums Connections Program in
collaboration with the Aboriginal Health Unit,
Aboriginal community and early childhood
educators promoting movement, mindfulness
and Aboriginal culture to children in Early
Childhood Education and Care Services.
• The Population Health Research and
Evaluation Hub was involved in 16 research
projects, 7 students supervised, 19
manuscripts published in national and
international journals and 5 successful
national research grants applications.
• Won the Multicultural Health Communication
Service Award 2021 in the Category: Keeping
People Healthy category for “HIV: What you
need to know”, multilingual booklet and was
a finalist in the Category: COVID-19 Pandemic
Response for “COVID-19 Communications
Campaign for CALD Communities”.
– Published 6185 media stories,
advertisements, and interviews across
70 ethnic media outlets.
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