Community Actions for a Healthy City Strategy (ESMD0004)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Madrid, Spain, 2022 – 2023
Inception Report Summary: Inception Report – Action plan – Madrid, Spain, 2022 – 2023
Commitment Start: Jun 2022
Commitment End: Dec 2022
Institutions involved:
- Madrid Salud Autonomous Organisation
- Subdirectorate General for Prevention and Health Promotion
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Civic Participation
Inception Report Summary
Verifiable: Yes
Relevance to OGP Values: Yes
The commitment is a continuation of ongoing practice in line with existing legislation, policies or requirements.
The commitment activities is a positive change to a process, practice or policy but will not generate a binding or institutionalized change across government or specific institution(s).
Description
Commitment ID
ESMD0004
Commitment Title
Community Actions for a Healthy City Strategy
Problem
In Madrid, as in many other cities around the world, Covid has affected people's well-being and health not only in physical aspects but also in cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects.
The current strategy "Madrid a healthy city" is guided by the principles and methodologies of community health prevention and promotion, with the ultimate goal of increasing the capacity of individuals and communities to increase their control over the determinants of health and, consequently, to improve their health.
The commitment focuses on three issues: pandemic deaths and bereavement; suicide prevention; and childhood obesity.
Status quo
The pandemic caused unexpected deaths; in the city of Madrid, the crude mortality rate in 2020 increased by 45% year-on-year compared to the previous year. Faced with this situation, it is essential to accompany the people of Madrid by offering them tools to help them deal with their grief and reduce the risk of it becoming a pathology.
Suicide is the leading cause of unnatural death in Spain. According to data from the General Directorate of Statistics of the Madrid City Council, there has been a progressive increase in the number of completed suicides recorded since 2013. Mental health has also been affected by the health crisis, increasing the risk of suicide.
The WHO has pointed out that the increase in obesity in the world's population will make this disease a global epidemic during the 21st century. Madrid is also affected by this.
Action
This commitment includes three lines of action:
- Promoting a compassionate community model, facilitating mourning and helping to overcome the processes of loss, with information, awareness-raising activities and community involvement in the promotion of empathetic attitudes and accompaniment in the processes of illness, taking society as the key driver of change, compassion as a transversal axis and the creation of care networks from the community.
- Addressing a strategy for suicide prevention, focusing on risk and protective factors and creating a comprehensive care network, promoting training, information, and awareness-raising activities.
- Develop pilot programmes in educational centers that contribute to improving the quality of life of children in the city of Madrid through the acquisition of healthy habits related to nutrition and physical activity.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
1- Community actions in situations of loss and bereavement.
Promote the generation of a compassionate community and strengthen the capacities of the neighbourhood for the collective care of people Strengthen the capacity to overcome in the educational context.
2- Suicide prevention support networks
Create a cohesive network of alliances and coordination protocols with public and private entities for suicide prevention. Strengthen the detection and prevention capacity of teaching professionals, families and community facilitators (gatekeepers).
3- Participation of the educational community in the prevention of childhood obesity.
Develop a pilot experience in 11 educational centers that incorporates an active and participatory methodology, involving the entire educational center as a whole, with guidance activities on healthy eating, physical activity, and the prevention of sedentary lifestyles.
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
- Facilitate citizen participation in improving community health.
- Establish partnerships with different entities in the districts.
- Forming social support networks and safe and risk-free environments.
- Generate collaboration protocols with social agents, the educational community, municipal services, and public and private entities.
- Carry out interventions that promote the participation of students, their families, the educational community, and health and sports professionals, carrying out activities aimed at improving the health of the entire school population.
The development of health asset maps is built with the participation of the community on days in which citizens mark the spaces in their environment that are a source of well-being in their daily lives.
Primary Policy Area
Other/NA
Primary Sector
Health & Nutrition
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Civic Participation | These programmes define actions that encourage citizen participation: - Facilitating citizen participation in improving the health of the community. |