NSW Health WSLHD Safety & Quality Account 2020-21

Population Health

WSLHD is investing in population health initiatives to extend access to services, promote healthy behaviours, and address the social determinants that influence health outcomes. Investing in population health translates to increased productivity, reduced healthcare costs, and a more equitable and resilient society, reflecting a commitment to the shared pursuit of a healthier and brighter future for all. In 2023, WSLHD launched our WSLHD Centre for Population Health Strategic Framework which outlines the shared vision, purpose, values, and focus areas of our Health Promotion and Public Health services for the next two years as we continue to transition from the COVID-19 pandemic response to ‘living with COVID-19’.

Centre for Population Health

Public Health

Health Promotion

Healthy Early Years

Communicable Disease

Healthy School Years

Healthy Adults

Environmental Health

Healthy Ageing

Immunisation

Healthy Places

Centre for Population Health Western Sydney Local Health District

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Strategic Framework 2022 - 2024

Smoking and Vaping Prevention

Public Health Response Epidemiology

Communications

NSW School Vaccination Program The Centre for Population Health Immunisation Team works in partnership with 109 high schools in Western Sydney to offer the vaccines recommended and funded for adolescents by the National Health and Medical Research Council. In 2021, the School Vaccination Program was impacted by school closures, student absenteeism due to COVID-19 and the diversion of accredited nurse immunisers from the program to COVID-19 vaccine hubs. This resulted in a considerable drop in vaccine coverage and the need to offer a second chance for vaccination to students who missed their vaccinations. A “Catch-up School Vaccination Project, 2022” was developed to restore immunisation coverage to pre-pandemic coverage in high school children. The planning, resources and roll out of this project were immense tasks that achieved the delivery of 13,145 catch-up vaccines, bringing the total number of vaccines administered by the School Vaccination Program in 2022 to 49,496 vaccines. The program has ensured a larger proportion of students are protected from these diseases and their serious complications.

The Centre for Population Health Immunisation team deliver the School Vaccination Program to protect high school students from vaccine preventable diseases.

Vaccination coverage for dose 2 HPV (human papillomavirus) has

Vaccine coverage for dTpa (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) has

Vaccine coverage for MenACWY (meningococcal) has

increased by 71%

increased by 19%

increased by 18%

Safety & Quality Account 2022-2023 Western Sydney Local Health District

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