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Evidence-based resources

Page contents: No. 1 – Oral health | No. 2 – Adolescent health | No. 3 – Falls prevention | No. 4 – Child injury prevention | No. 5 – Promoting healthy eating for children: A Planning Guide for Practitioners | No. 6 – Body image | No. 7 – Cardiovascular disease & type 2 diabetes | No.8 – Mental Health Promotion

No. 1 – Oral health

PDF Icon Evidence-based health promotion: resources for planning. No. 1 Oral health (2000) (603kb, pdf)

No. 2 – Adolescent health

PDF Icon Resources for planning: No. 2 – Adolescent health (140kb, pdf)

No. 3 – Falls prevention

PDF Icon Resources for planning: No. 3 falls prevention (512kb, pdf)

No. 4 – Child injury prevention

PDF Icon No. 4 – Child injury prevention (256kb, pdf)

No. 5 – Promoting healthy eating for children: A Planning Guide for Practitioners

PDF Icon No. 5 - Promoting Healthy Eating for Children (1.1mb, pdf)

Supporting Documentation – Full Review of Children's Healthy Eating Interventions – this is the technical report, which informed the development of the "Promoting healthy eating for children - a planning guide for practitioners".

PDF Icon Full Review of Children's Healthy Eating Interventions (661kb, pdf)

No. 6 – Body image

PDF Icon Shapes: Body image program planning guide (264kb, pdf)

PDF Icon Best bets: Body Image Programs Overview (76kb, pdf)

PDF Icon Tabulated summary of evaluated prevention intervention research literature (852kb, pdf)

PDF Icon Research Review of Body Image Programs (524kb, pdf)

No. 7 – Cardiovascular disease & type 2 diabetes

PDF Icon Planning for healthy communities (712kb, pdf)

The literature review for the Planning for Healthy Communities evidence based resource was conducted principally by reviewing existing reviews of each topic. The tables below provide a summary of the reviews, and in some cases
recent individual studies not included in the reviews, for each topic. Mental Health and Social Connectedness has no associated summary tables, as there were no appropriate reviews available in this area at the time of the study.

The following tables provide information on the following six topics:

No.8 – Mental Health Promotion

Adobe Acrobat icon Evidence-based mental health promotion resource - entire resource (1,070kb, pdf)

To accompany the full resource two summary documents have been produced.

Adobe Acrobat icon Evidence in a nutshell – mental health promotion (45kb, pdf)
An information resource which briefly describes the evidence of interventions to address the key determinants of mental health.

Adobe Acrobat icon Evidence-based mental health promotion resource – Executive Summary (69kb, pdf)


 
 
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