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HEALTH PROMOTION

HEALTH PREVENTION

Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in local Pasifika communities Pasifika Preventing Diabetes Programme (PPDP) is a National Health & Medical Research Council funded research study to test if a theory-based lifestyle programme, with community-wide and peer support interventions, is associated with sustained changes in healthy lifestyle choices. Run across four metropolitan Sydney LHDs, the 51-month study is in recruitment phase. WSLHD employs one full-time Pasifika Community Lifestyle Activator to support the study and engage the local Pasifika church community. The recruitment phase aims to recruit at least 40% of people on the church register into the study from 48-60 Pasifika churches in Greater Western Sydney and South Eastern Sydney, totalling 3,600 adults and 1,000 children (4-17 years). The implementation phase will commence in early 2024.

PPDP - Community Lifestyle Activators Makeleta Felila, Tene Pahulu and Ronda Thompson

Engagement and church recruitment across the four Local Health Districts

Local Health District

Number of signed church Memorandum of Understandings

Number of completed church registrations

Number of participants

Western Sydney LHD

23

10

191

South Western Sydney LHD 14

8

270

South Eastern LHD

3

1

19

Nepean Blue Mountains LHD 3

1

0

TOTAL

43

20

480

HEALTH PREVENTION HEALTH PROTECTION

HEALTH PROMOTION

Tackling vaping: new district Action Plan We hosted a workshop earlier in 2023 with district leaders to develop a strategy and coordinated approach to reducing e-cigarette use throughout western Sydney. This resulted in the development of a new WSLHD E-cigarette Action Plan 2023-2025.

District leaders attend e-cigarette Action Plan workshop.

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WSLHD Centre for Population Health Year in Review 2023