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Strategic Outcome 2: Eliminate health inequalities
The DHBs in the Midland Region remain committed to working to eliminate health inequalities in its populations. This occurs in partnership with key stakeholders and our community (i.e. clinical leaders, Iwi, Primary Health Organisations and non-Government organisations) and in collaboration with other DHBs and the Ministry of Health regional and national work.
1.6.3.3 Regional Objectives
The region has agreed six regional objectives, which are:
Regional Objective 1: Improve Māori health outcomes
Regional Objective 2: Integrate across continuums of care
Regional Objective 3: Improve quality across all regional services
Regional Objective 4: Improve clinical information systems
Regional Objective 5: Build the workforce
Regional Objective 6: Efficiently allocate public health system resources
1.6.3 Local Strategic Intentions
To contribute to achieving the outcomes at a national and regional level, we have identified our local strategic intent for 2015/16. Our strategic intent represents a continuation from previous years, as the challenges we face are not short term issues easily resolved within a 12 month period.
Our local strategic outcomes listed below align directly to the regional strategic outcomes.
1. To improve the health of the Waikato DHB population
2. To reduce or eliminate health inequalities
Many factors influence outcomes. In contributing to these outcomes we will have a real impact on the lives of our populations. Many of the activities we plan to implement in 2015/16 will contribute across a number of our outcomes, priorities and impacts.
The local priorities have been included in our overall performance story to ensure items important to us that are not explicitly covered in the regional strategic intent are included. Our local priorities are presented in the table on the following page.
At a local level, we plan to be monitoring life expectancy as an outcome indicator. We will link into regional work around the following regional indicators as appropriate.
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