The Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021-2025 (MPHWP) identifies Council’s health priorities for the Shire over the next four years. Each priority area has several strategies, and we will work with agencies and local groups to prevent or reduce public health issues and support our community to be healthy and well.
The four priority areas in the MPWHP are.
Being healthy and well is not just the absence of disease, it is the result of a combination of physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual factors that influence a person’s ability to live a happy and meaningful life. A holistic view of health and wellbeing is taken throughout the MPHWP, acknowledging the following priority groups:
Additionally, a gender equity and co-benefits lens was taken to all MPHWP priority areas, strategies and actions.
The MPHWP is on page 57 of the Council Plan and Community Vision(PDF, 5MB).