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Table 2 Action ideas to promote health and wellness in four local government areas developed using the Causal Loop Diagrams

From: Intersection between health, health literacy and local government: a mixed methods approach to identifying ways to better connect people to place-based primary health care in Western Australia

Theme

LGA1

LGA2

LGA3

LGA4

Increasing mental health treatment

Separate Emergency Departments for mental health presentations

 

Mental health hub

Increasing mental health services

Bringing holistic health care to the community

Hub-style Outreach

Pop-up services

One stop shop for GP, dentist, mental health, Salvation Army

Holistic culturally appropriate approach to health care

Wellness centre

Collaboration between providers

Collaboration between services

Pop-up clinics

Early intervention

  

Early childhood intervention

Early intervention on mental health, especially dementia

Financial interventions

Improve funding models

  

Health professionals donating time

Improve knowledge of available health services & work with community

Increased Education/Awareness of available services in local area

Increase access to information

Increase awareness of bilingual GPs in LGA

Directory of services

Increase awareness of available services among GPs

Promote existing health services

Health promotion activities

Health services expo

 

Health services expo

 

Improve digital literacy

 

Increasing digital literacy

Intergenerational digital literacy

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