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Health Promotion
This site provides a gateway to health promotion activities within the Department of Human Services and other key health promotion resources.
It provides a comprehensive, starting point for exploring health promotion on the internet, and aims to facilitate and improve communication about quality health promotion practice in the following areas.
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Role of Department of Human Services in health promotion
Outlines how the Department of Human Services supports integrated health promotion in Victoria.
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What is integrated health promotion (IHP)?
This section outlines how IHP includes effective partnerships, a mix of interventions, a common planning framework and a broad range of sectors involved in planning.
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Foundations of health promotion
Provides an overview of the broader determinants of health that reflect a social model of health, the link to social capital and community development and the policy context for integrated health promotion.
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Health promotion practice
This section outlines planning and implementation, health promotion interventions and capacity building strategies, evaluation and dissemination.
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Quality, evidence & effectiveness
Provides a comprehensive list of resources that will support a quality and evidence based approach to health promotion practice.
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Health & wellbeing issues
This section outlines National Health Priority areas and additional health and wellbeing issues for Victoria.
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Population groups
A gateway into key publications and websites based on population groups.
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Partnerships
Outlines the principles of partnerships and key stakeholders /partners that should be considered in planning integrated health promotion.
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Environments & settings
Including local government, hospitals, schools, Health agencies, rural locations and workplaces.
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Resources & linkages
Gateway to useful resources on Consumer & Community Participation, International websites, Professional association and journals and many more topics.
- HealthWorks
events calendar
Relevant education and training events (regional, state and national) that have a health promotion theme – this includes health promotion theory and practice, consumer health, health management to support health promotion practice, health information and social policy.
The Better Health Channel is the department’s community-focused Internet site, which provides health and health services information. The Health Translations Online Directory enables those working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities to easily find reliable translated health information.
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