Reports & Publications

West Midlands Health and Well-being Strategy

The vision of the West Midlands Regional Health and Well-Being Strategy is: 'To maintain, enhance, improve and protect the health and well-being of people in the West Midlands Region and to reduce health inequalities by 2020 within environmental limits, so as not to compromise healthy life for future generations'.

Download the West Midlands Health and Well-being Strategy (pdf 5.7mb)

The previous consultation document can be found below:

(The main consultation document has been split into chapters for ease of download).

• Intro and contents
• Context
• Planning, Transport and Health
• Housing and Health
• Environment and Health
• Economy and Health
• Culture, Physical Activity and Health
• Safer Communities and Health
• Stages of Life
• Children and Young People
• Later Life
• Consultation and Action Planning
• References
• Abbreviations, Glossary and Further Explanations
• Acknowledgements a standard presentation
• The West Midlands Public Health Observatory have prepared a Technical Annex to the draft Regional Health and Welbeing Strategy
• The notes of the consultation event held on the 21st May at Austin Court in Birmingham
• To ensure that the implications for rural areas are considered as the final strategy is developed an appraisal of the Health and Wellbeing strategy consultation document has been carried out:
  The Rural Commentary and The Rural Workshop
• An equality review of the draft Health and Wellbeing strategy has been carried out by the Equality and Diversity Partnership - the full report.

The outcome of theconsultation on the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy:

• The list of consultation events
• The responses to the consultation
• The general report
• An overarching report
• Overlap/Link to other strategies
• The Summary of responses to Planning and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to Housing and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to Environment and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Economy and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Safer Communities and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Later Life Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Children and Young People Chapter

The West Midlands Regional Health Strategy: Choosing Health for the West Midlands is available to download. The Government Office for the West Midlands site holds this information.

The Department of Health's National White Paper, Choosing Health: making health choices easier,sets out the key principles for supporting the public to make healthier and more informed choices in regards to their health. A downloadable version of the White Paper.

Promoting a Physical Activity Programme, a report for the Regional Health Partnership.

Department of Health Publications and Statistics are downloadable from The Department of Health website.