Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan 2022-2025

Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan 2022-2025 Childrens Health Ireland Hospital Group In response to rising levels of chronic illness, lifestyle trends that threaten health and persistent health inequalities the government launched‘Healthy Ireland’ a national framework for action to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland in early 2013. The Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013 – 2025 (Healthy Ireland) takes a whole-of-Government and whole-ofsociety approach to improving the health and wellbeing and quality of people’s lives. Healthy Ireland brings together people and organisations from across the country to address the social, economic and environmental factors that contribute to poor physical and mental health, and to address health inequalities (Figure 1). Healthy Ireland reflects our shared commitment in the health sector, and more widely, to support people to be as healthy and well as they can. The publication of this framework lays the foundations to improve the health and wellbeing of our nation over the coming generation. Based on international evidence, it outlines a new commitment to public health with a considerable emphasis on prevention, while at the same time advocating for stronger health systems. It aims to create an Irish society where everyone can enjoy positive physical and mental health, and where wellbeing is valued and supported at every level of society. The Framework has created the conditions and a governance structure at the highest level of government to facilitate cross-sectoral and cross-governmental actions to improve health and wellbeing status. This is a broad framework of actions which are to be undertaken across all government departments, public sector organisations, businesses, communities and individuals to improve health and wellbeing and reduce the risks posed to future generations.