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Healthy Ireland Local Government

At Healthy Ireland Local Government, we support and create a range of opportunities to encourage local authorities to lead on health and wellbeing within communities to bring about improved health outcomes.

This happens across the whole range of local government activities and services to help address what’s called the wider determinants of health and wellbeing – what many people term the causes of the causes of what make people unhealthy.

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Healthy Ireland Local Government

With a growing focus and responsibility being given to Local Authorities for community well-being, Healthy Ireland Local Government plays an important role in encouraging local government to join-up its effort at the local level leading to improved health and wellbeing outcomes.

Healthy Ireland Programmes within Local Government are funded by the Department of Health with 2 main initiatives: the Healthy Ireland Cities and Counties Programme and the Sláintecare Healthy Communities Programme. For more information explore our Healthy Ireland Local Government Map

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Healthy Ireland Local Government Team training with Norway Healthy Cities - April 2024

Healthy Ireland Local Government Team

The Healthy Ireland Local Government team operates across the 31 Local Authorities with 50 specialist staff coming from varied backgrounds and experiences.

The team consists of 31 Healthy Ireland City and County Co-ordinators employed to develop, co-ordinate and implement local wellbeing initiatives and 19 Sláintecare Healthy Communities Local Development Officers whose goal is to address health inequalities in 19 designated areas of disadvantage. These programmes are supported by the Healthy Ireland Local Government National Team based in Waterford.

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