the local asset mapping project (lamp)
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Mapping Health Services to meet the needs of an ageing Population:
The Local Asset Mapping Project
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19
Smoking
Alcohol
15.9
34
PhysicalInactivit
y
37.2
Hypertension
Diabetes
8.6
33.9
Arthritis22.
2
Falls
Hospital CommunityGeneral Practice
Health in All Policies
“We can’t do well serving these communities…if we believe that we, the givers, are the only ones that are half-full, and
that everybody we’re serving is half-empty”
Stacy Lindau et al Prev Med 2011
18 transition year students involved in 8 week community mapping exercise
On street survey:
Geocoded location
Type of activity
Contact details/ opening hours
60 km
62,000
1340 assets:
110 Social services
68 public services
63 health services
40 sports/fitness
Total - 281
3500 Assets Wave 2
N = 31
Community Engagement
Impact:
Chronic Disease
Sedentariness
Malnutrition
Social Isolation/Loneliness
Risk of falling
Conclusions
Wealth of services in the community that promote health
Community organisations feel disconnected from health care providers
Asset-mapping approach provides a means to integrate hospital into community
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