Challenge Statement

Become Canada’s healthiest community, by engaging and securing the participation of all in the community to create a community healthy culture that improves social, economic, physical and health care environments and individual characteristics and behaviours, so that healthy life expectancy is increased by 3+ years over 5 years.

Summary

We will become Canada’s Healthiest Community – Own Our Own Health. We will increase healthy life expectancy by 3+ years over 5 years.

That will be enabled through our Smart Community Project.

Vision: “Own Our Own Health Information: Enabling efforts to be Canada’s Healthiest Community – Individually and Collectively”

Mission: “Create a Community “Health Information Sharing” Culture”

Over the past two years, we have engaged hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations in the community in thinking about what it would take to be Canada’s Healthiest Community.

Five projects have been identified:

• Airdrie & Area Blue Zone Project
• Airdrie & Area Health Park Project
• Airdrie & Area Need-Based Networks Project
• Airdrie & Area Health Coop Project
• Airdrie & Area Smart Community Project

The Smart Community Project will leverage and connect existing and add new infrastructure, platforms and applications to create an open data platform for use by all. Data will be secured and customized content pushed out to enable informed action.

The City of Airdrie sponsored this project. We know that one party cannot “do it to” the community. A Health Coop has been incorporated as the tool to bring all together as equal owners and equal beneficiaries.

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