SOCIAL RIGHTS
El Prat de Llobregat stands up for a better health of citizens
As health is not only a matter of genetics and biology, the proposal of the new health program is to put the focus on the social conditions as a key issue to improve the life and health of its citizens.
Tags: Health, Gender Equality, Citizen Participation, Social Inclusion
Challenges addressed
- Strengthen people’s mental health and emotional well-being
- Prevent violence
- Increase levels of physical activity
- Prevent dependence on alcohol, tobacco and other addictions
- Build a public space that favours health and well-being
- Improve sexual and reproductive health
- Control risks (environmental, of certain diseases) for a better protection of the health
Main objectives
- Citizens Empowerment: change the overall perspective of health, promoting information, and responsibility for one’s health
- Health perspective in the public policies: it is needed that health’s perspective influence different part or public policies
- Equity: new models to overcome the risk of inequalities
- A shared vision of the challenges and a shared vision of the strategies to overcome it
- Importance of the health perspective in the different policies
- Broaden the citizen’s participation and their social implications
Facts
Project type Health Program
Promoter Municipality of El Prat de Llobregat
Start date 2017
Budget 15 500 €
Website www.elprat.cat
Project description
The Municipality of El Prat de Llobregat has 63.000 inhabitants and can influence factors like environment, lifestyles, personal skills and abilities and in this way create opportunities for a healthy lifestyle. Intervening in the social, cultural and physical environment they can create new frames for healthier citizens.
The Local Health Plan wants to be the result of a working progress that will allow recognizing and evaluating the decisions, actions and programs that are being developed in different fields (mobility, culture, and sports, ) and identify the health challenges that need to be addressed.
This project has three different parts:
The first part is the organization, including the presentation of the plan to the key actors, and the organization of the members that will join the project, etc. The second part of the health project is the analysis; focussing on the challenges and priorities of the health programs of the European Union, the health challenges in the city of el Prat de Llobregat, through a qualitative analysis made by the key actors of the city and finally a quantitative analysis with the actual data in health facilities, problems, etc. from the citizens of El Prat de Llobregat.
The last part, after the analyses of part two (data city of El Prat de Llobregat, European Union, opinions of the key actors etc.) is a meeting to share the proposal and the strategies of the health plan and the necessary modifications after the consultation with key actors.
Impact and results
- 8 main program guidelines
- Social inclusion
- Poverty reduction
- Health improvement
- Cooperation
- Social approach
- Public participation and engagement
