Public Health and Wellbeing Planning

Local councils support their communities and contribute to the health and wellbeing of their residents. Public health and wellbeing planning provides a framework for developing council policy, procedures and actions to promote and protect the public health of communities. 

Healthy Environs offers an experienced team of social planning and public health consultants to guide councils on their public health and wellbeing planning journey. Our project experience in public health planning spans 10 metropolitan councils and 15 rural and regional councils and counting. 

Our consultants are skilled at developing public health and wellbeing plans following legislative requirements in close partnership with community stakeholders. 

Our approach: 

• Comprehensively assesses the state of public health in the local government region based on meaningful indicators 

• Is underpinned by the social determinants of health and takes a quadruple bottom line approach (environmental, social, cultural and economic) to assess the state of health in regions 

• Integrates action across relevant council strategies and policies 

• Builds the capacity of council staff (officers, engineers, planners and policymakers) to help them understand how their work can shape public health 

• Is informed through comprehensive community engagement and involvement of Elected Council Members 

• Provides a foundation for public health partnerships across stakeholders and regions 

• Addresses relevant legislative requirements for municipal public health planning. 

Our service capabilities are varied and tailored, from leading and managing your project to mentoring your in-house team.