Goal - Gannawarra Shire Council
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Above: Living Green workshop<br />
participant Kylie Kervin with<br />
water wise gardener and<br />
presenter Kevin Walsh.<br />
Below: Pat Ibbotson displayed<br />
her POW Sketches at the Sir<br />
John Gorton Library in May of<br />
2011.<br />
HEALTH<br />
√ 96.8 percent of children under five<br />
years of age residing in<br />
<strong>Gannawarra</strong> were fully immunised,<br />
above the state average of 92<br />
percent. The increase is attributed<br />
to an active strategy to follow up<br />
children overdue for<br />
immunisations.<br />
√ 2,175 vaccinations were<br />
administered to 1,584 people at<br />
51 immunisation sessions during<br />
the 2010/2011 year, the highest<br />
number on record.<br />
√ <strong>Council</strong>’s 2011 seasonal Influenza<br />
program concluded with a record<br />
number of 616 doses of the<br />
vaccine administered. 34<br />
businesses participated in<br />
<strong>Council</strong>’s annual workplace<br />
immunisation program.<br />
√ Special Immunisation Clinics<br />
were conducted at Quambatook,<br />
Leitchville and Murrabit. These<br />
clinics are organised on an annual<br />
basis by members of these small<br />
communities and <strong>Council</strong> is<br />
pleased to be involved in<br />
improving access to health<br />
services within outlying towns.<br />
√ A Heart Foundation ‘Healthy by<br />
Design’ forum was conducted in<br />
Kerang for local agency staff<br />
which included a presentation on<br />
‘Planning for a Healthy Future in<br />
<strong>Gannawarra</strong>’. Healthy by Design<br />
encourages enhanced knowledge<br />
of how improved health and<br />
wellbeing for the community can<br />
be an important outcome for<br />
projects with the right<br />
information, planning and design.<br />
√ A review of <strong>Council</strong>’s Municipal<br />
Public Health and Wellbeing Plan<br />
2009 - 2013 finds that the<br />
document continues to be<br />
effective, assisting to drive health<br />
and wellbeing outcomes for the<br />
community at a local level.<br />
The next review is scheduled for<br />
November 2011.<br />
√ <strong>Council</strong>’s Heatwave Plan was<br />
reviewed, the Heat Health Alert<br />
system tested and an internal<br />
group formed to prepare to<br />
activate <strong>Council</strong>’s Heat Health<br />
systems over the summer period.<br />
Key community messages such as<br />
‘stay out of the heat, stay cool and<br />
drink plenty of water, look out for<br />
yourself and others’ were<br />
distributed.<br />
√ One outbreak of gastroenteritis in<br />
aged care facilities was<br />
investigated and controlled and<br />
<strong>Council</strong> officers were called to<br />
investigate two cases of<br />
communicable disease.<br />
√ 36 compliance checks were<br />
conducted under the Tobacco Act.<br />
17 education sessions with<br />
tobacco retailers, eating<br />
establishments and licensed<br />
premises were completed.<br />
√ Two complaints under the<br />
Nuisance provisions of the Public<br />
Health and Wellbeing Act 2008<br />
were received and investigated.<br />
√ 144 compliance inspections of<br />
premises registered under the<br />
Food Act, Public Health and<br />
Wellbeing Act and Residential<br />
Tenancies Act were conducted by<br />
<strong>Council</strong> officers.<br />
√ 167 doses of the Human<br />
papillomavirus vaccine were<br />
administered to help protect<br />
women from cervical cancer.<br />
√ 296 doses of the Boostrix vaccine<br />
were administered to help protect<br />
against whooping cough as a high<br />
incidence of disease continues to<br />
occur across Australia.