Health Promotion

Central Coast Local Health District NSW

Adults

Get Healthy at Work – Diabetes

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Get Healthy at Work is a free NSW Government workplace health service that aims to help improve the health of working adults by giving workplaces tools and support to address

  • Healthy eating
  • Healthy weight
  • Physical activity
  • Active travel (ie walking, cycling, public transport to work)
  • Smoking
  • Harmful alcohol consumption

Why improve health at your business?

In the short-term, you’ll be able to recognise a successful workplace health program by the way your team:

  • Works together
  • Engages in their jobs
  • Enjoys their work

In the long-term, a successful workplace health program may influence the performance of your workplace through:

  • Gains in staff attraction and retention
  • Improved productivity
  • Enhanced corporate image
  • Reductions in absenteeism

Get Healthy at Work is currently focused on the prevention of chronic disease including type two diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. However, if your workplace would like to focus on supporting mental health there are a range of resources and support programs available to workplaces and workers in NSW.

No matter what industry you’re in or the size of your workplace, Get Healthy at Work makes it easy for you to identify the biggest health issues facing your workplace and make changes for the better.

Visit Get Healthy at Work to register your interest, request a Workplace Information Kit or to find out more about the program.

Are you a General Practitioner Health Professional – Diabetes

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The Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service is a free confidential, phone service which helps participants reach healthy lifestyle goals. Find out more about the Service, including who is eligible, why and how you can refer your patients. Start building a healthier community today.

Get Healthy at Work

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Australians spend about one third of their lives at work, so being healthy at work can make a big impact on helping to reduce the prevalence of lifestyle-related chronic disease such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

No matter how big or small your workplace, Get Healthy at Work can help address individual, behavioural and workplace factors leading to poor health. It can also help in reducing tobacco and alcohol use or increasing physical activity and healthy eating.

Check your risk…what’s your score? Diabetes Prevention

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The Central Coast Community Health Survey 2014 estimated that of Central Coast adults aged 18 years and over, 10% had been told by a doctor or hospital they had diabetes and of these, 75% have Type 2 diabetes.

Check your risk…what’s your score? by doing the AUSDRisk assessment…

So what is Type 2 Diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic (long term) disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. People with diabetes have a higher risk of developing heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, circulation problems, lower limb amputations, nerve damage and damage to the kidneys and eyes.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes.

Many Coasties, particularly those over 40, are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes through any one of these lifestyle factors:

  • Not enough physical activity
  • Poor nutrition
  • Being overweight
  • Smoking

Other factors that increase risk are:

  • Being an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
  • Being a male
  • Having a family history of diabetes
  • Ethnicity/country of birth.

In approximately 58% of cases of type 2 diabetes, the condition can be delayed or prevented by reducing weight, increasing physical activity, improving diet and stopping smoking.

 

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The Central Coast Local Health District, Diabetes Services, provide information, education and support for people with diabetes, their families and carers. Our team includes diabetes nurse educators, a dietitian and social worker to help both children and adults manage their diabetes

Health assessment for people aged 40 to 49 years with a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes

The home of Diabetes Australia

The FREE Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service can help provide you with the support and motivation you need to reach your own healthy lifestyle goals.

Watch this to find out more.

 

With this in mind, there is opportunity to promote healthy eating and active living across organisations on the Central Coast to help reduce prevalence of the disease.

Diabetes care on the Central Coast

The new Central Coast Local Health District’s Diabetes Plan and Model of Care are important to address the increasing rate of diabetes on the Central Coast – about 10 per cent of adults living in the region have diabetes, mostly type 2 diabetes.

This is the first Diabetes Plan and Model of Care for the Central Coast created in partnership between the Central Coast Local Health District, the Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network and Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Health Services, with input from consumers.

The Plan aims to address health promoting environments and education among communities and health professionals.

Lifestyle related risk factors, including overweight and obesity, are major contributors to the prevalence of type 2 diabetes. The Central Coast Local Health District’s Health Promotion Service and Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Health Services have a range of programs in place in the community to increase physical activity levels, increase fruit and vegetable consumption and ultimately, reduce levels of overweight and obesity in children and adults.

 

 

 

 

Urban Planning for Health

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Urban planning can facilitate and support preventative health approaches, especially for those who are disadvantaged and older, or who are high users of primary health care services … read more

Partnering with the District’s Public Health Unit and Health Services Planning Unit we advocate for the planning, design, development and management of healthy built environments. We identify and respond to possible health impacting proposals by way of written submissions for example; Central Coast Regional Plan.

Find out more

Central Coast Local Health District Clinical Services Plan

The draft of Central Coast Community Strategic defines a Community vision – “We are the Central Coast. A smart, green, and liveable region with a shared sense of belonging and responsibility.”

First ever Central Coast Community Strategic Plan released

The Central Coast Regional Plan 2036, requires all levels of government, the private sector and the community to work together.

This Plan sets regional planning priorities and provides a framework for regional and local planning decisions.

Quick Meals for Kooris

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Quick Meals for Kooris is a ‘hands-on’ cooking program that was designed to assist urban Aboriginal people to cook healthy meals for the family.

The program is delivered in two x three-hour sessions and is very flexible and versatile. It can be used as a stand-alone activity or incorporated within larger programs. The recipes used include ‘everyday’ foods, fresh, frozen and tinned, which are always the cheapest to buy and often in the cupboard.

Quick Meals for Kooris is designed to be run by an Aboriginal health worker or a member of the Aboriginal community. The group leader does not need extensive nutrition knowledge, just some basic home cooking skills and knowledge of their local community.

Why was the program developed?

There is a need for urban Aboriginal people to have access to relevant food programs that promote healthy family eating. A program was needed that was ‘hands-on’ and enabled new food skills to be learnt in a friendly informal environment.

Quick Meals for Kooris was designed to enable Aboriginal people to improve their health through gaining knowledge and developing skills to enable them to feed their families healthy food on a budget.

A resource was also needed that could be used to train Aboriginal health workers or interested members of the Aboriginal community to deliver the program thus ensuring sustainability.

What is in the cooking program?

There are two x three hour sessions which begin with a demonstration of aspects of each recipe. Then the class is divided into groups to cook a recipe together.  The meal is then shared and eaten, encouraging socialising and happy discussions.

Recipes used in the program are available to participants in the Quick Meals for Kooris at Home participant booklet. Each recipe has instructions on how to modify it for diabetes, for example: how to substitute ingredients depending on availability; and how to use leftovers.

Download a copy of:

Quick Meals for Kooris at Home

Quick Meals for Kooris Trainers Manual

Participants will:

  • Learn how to prepare low cost recipes
  • Share ideas and prepare meals from ingredients that are ‘in the cupboard’ use a range of ingredients, modify recipes or how to ‘extend meat’ to serve more people
  • Adapt or choose recipes to suit cooking skills, utensils and equipment that they may have available
  • Discuss food safety and hygiene (woven into the sessions)
  • Prepare meals and snacks suitable for the whole family.

How can the program be delivered?

The cooking program can be run as a ‘stand-alone’ program or included in larger programs, including those that address:

  • diabetes
  • heart disease
  • living on a budget
  • working with youth
  • community gardens
  • vacation care etc.

The kit is also designed to train Aboriginal health workers or Aboriginal community members to deliver the cooking program.

For more information contact Carolyn Bunney on 4320 3363 or complete below.