#2328_WSLHD_CPH_YIR 2023_4A_WEB

About... Our community in context

Our population

Our environment

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Our District has 100 health service sites and 4 hospitals that are supported by approximately 13,491 healthcare staff We have 534 early childhood education and care services, 468 of which are engaged in Munch & Move reaching approximately 32,000 children We have 221 primary schools engaged in Live Life Well at School, reaching up to 124,000 students We have 64 aged care settings reaching 6,270 residents in the community We work with TAFE and Western Sydney University to reach tertiary students and staff We work with the 4 councils in our District (Blacktown, Cumberland, Parramatta and The Hills Shire) We have 114 high schools reaching approximately 24,000 students for school vaccinations

14,635 babies were born in WSLHD in 2020, the largest number of births across all of NSW Before the COVID-19 pandemic, WSLHD had the highest burden of travel related communicable disease in NSW For Cumberland LGA residents, there are 21% more preventable hospitalisations* than the rest of NSW In NSW, 32.7% of all 16–24-year-olds are reported to have ever used e-cigarettes from 2020-2021

We have one of the fastest growing populations in NSW which is estimated to reach 1,198,907 by 2030 50% of our residents were born overseas, compared to 31% in NSW 54% of our residents speak a language other than English at home, compared to 28% in NSW We have one of the largest urban populations of Aboriginal people in Australia Between 2010 and 2020 11,864 refugee and humanitarian entrants settled in WSLHD and 85% had poor English proficiency We are a young population with the largest number of children under 10 years of age in NSW

The number of days exceeding 35ºC in Western Sydney is increasing at twice the rate of the Sydney CBD We have 10 splash parks, 47 public swimming pools, 12 hospital pools, and 64 commercial pools to support recreational use, active living and heat management Sydney, and is accessible to 2.3 million people by car or public transport within 45 minutes Western Sydney residents have lower rates of cycling, walking and public transport use, and higher use of private vehicles to travel to work compared to Greater Sydney residents In Parramatta, 62% of dwellings were medium to high density, compared to 20.1% in The Hills Shire, and 46% across Greater Sydney Parramatta is the geographic centre of

Western Sydney is a diabetes hotspot with 13% of adults with diabetes compared to 11% across NSW

*Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations (PPH) are those conditions for which hospitalisation is considered potentially avoidable through preventive care and early disease management For references: WSLHD Centre for Population Health Strategic Framework 2022-2024 (page 5) https://www.wslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Population-Health/news-resources

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WSLHD Centre for Population Health Year in Review 2023