Find out about the City's plan to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.
Public health planning is the process of planning for a healthy community. Public health planning shifts the balance towards prevention rather than cure with a focus on achieving long term public health outcomes through the planning process.
Planning for a healthy community involves reviewing local health data, and engaging with community and stakeholders to identify health priorities for the Local Government to focus on. The Local Government then produces a plan outlining specific actions and responses to these identified health priorities, including how they will implement and evaluate these actions and responses. The final plan produced is required to align with the Public Health Act 2016 and the State Public Health Plan. The aim of this is for both Local and State Governments to work in unison, more effectively, whilst directing resources that target greater areas of public health need.
In July 2019, the State Government released Department of Health's State Public Health Plan for Western Australia: Objectives and Policy Priorities for 2019 – 2024. The release of this plan coincided with an amendment (Part 5) to the Public Health Act 2016, to make public health plans mandatory for every local government in WA. On 4 June 2024, Part 5 of the Public Health Act 2016 was enacted and on 4 June 2025, Department of Health released their updated State Public Health Plan 2025 – 2030.
For more information on the State Public Health Plan, visit the Department of Health's website:
The purpose of this Community Health and Wellbeing Plan (CHWP) is to continue the City’s commitment to improving health and wellbeing outcomes for City of Armadale residents, and to enable people to live well and experience the best possible quality of life.
This CHWP is the City’s third public health plan and meets the requirements outlined in the Public Health Act 2016 and is aligned with the State Public Health Plan 2025 – 2030.
The development of the CHWP involved an extensive consultation process involving community, staff and stakeholders. The process included strategic alignment to identify existing health priorities within the City and a review of resident’s demographics and health and wellbeing status.
This process identified the following five strategies for the City:
Empower and enable people to live healthy lifestyles by providing opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills.
Promote healthy, strong, and resilient communities by building community capacity and providing opportunities for social and cultural connection.
Build healthy public policy.
Foster supportive and healthier natural, built and social environments.
Protect and enhance human health by reducing exposure to environmental and public health risks.
This CHWP includes an action plan outlining 36 outcomes to work towards improving community health and wellbeing that fall under each of the five strategies above. Each action statement is linked to performance indicators to ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation.
To view the Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025 – 2030, please download the document below.
The Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021 – 2024 was developed to meet the State Public Health Plan for Western Australia: Objectives and Policy Priorities for 2019 – 2024 along with the amendments included in Part 5 of the Public Health Act 2016. The Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021 - 2024 is the City’s second Public Health Plan and focuses on three key objectives, those being:
Prevent chronic disease through empowering and enabling people to live healthy lives
Provide environmental health protection for the community
Improve and maintain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
To view the Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021 – 2024 or the associated annual reports outlining the achievements and progress, please download the documents below.
Community Health and Wellbeing Plan - 2021 2024
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Annual Report 2021/2022 - Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021 - 2024
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Annual Report 2022/2023 - Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021 - 2024
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Annual Report 2023/2024 - Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021 - 2024
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The City of Armadale’s Community Health and Wellbeing 2020 Project aimed to engage a range of community members and service providers to gather both quality data and feedback about the community’s health and wellbeing priorities and concerns. This input was sought to support the development of the City’s Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2021 – 2024.
To view the results of this project, please view the City’s Community Health and Wellbeing Project 2020 – Community Engagement Results below.
The City of Armadale was one of the first Local Governments in the state to develop its first public health plan. The Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2014 - 2017 was developed through a review of local health data and information, and consultation with residents, public health organisations and staff.
From this review and consultation, priority health issues were identified with a number of strategies to address these issues included under the priority areas of:
Environmental Health Protection
Chronic Disease Prevention
Enhanced Community Lifestyle
To view the Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2014 – 2017, please see the document below.
For more information about public health planning or any of the documents listed above, please contact the City's Community Health and Wellbeing Officer on 08 9394 5000 or info@armadale.wa.gov.au.
The City of Armadale acknowledge the Traditional Owners and the Custodians of the land upon which we stand, work and play.
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples of this land and their connection to the lands and the waters, as they are part of them spiritually and culturally.
We acknowledge their ancestors, the Elders past and present, who have led the way for us to follow.
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