Integrated health promotion resource kit

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Introduction

There is growing evidence worldwide of the benefits and effectiveness of investing in health promotion programs, through an integrated approach. Integrated health promotion programs deliver benefits for the community through promoting positive wellbeing, strengthening community capacity and minimising the burden of serious diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The Integrated health promotion: A practice guide for service providers is a resource kit produced by the Primary and Community Health Branch in partnership with the Public Health Branch (Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services Division).This guide is a practical resource to support agencies and organisations to plan, deliver and evaluate effective integrated health promotion programs.

An earlier version of this guide was distributed in December 2000 as the Primary Care Partnerships draft health promotion guidelines (the blue book). This practice guide is an evolution of that document, building on the experience of Primary Care Partnership member agencies and the Department of Human Services in using the draft guidelines during the past two and a half years.

The consultation process to produce this guide included both written feedback from, and dialogue with, the sector and across the department including:

• Primary Care Partnership member agencies
• Consumer and carer organisations
• Peak bodies and statewide health promotion organisations
• Statewide advisory committees
• Academic institutions
• Regional health promotion officers, regional primary health advisers and primary care partnership regional contacts

Using the guide

The guide recognises and values the broad range of agencies, organisations and practitioners delivering integrated health promotion programs. It is, therefore, useful for agencies that receive funding from the Primary and Community Health Branch of the Department of Human Services as well as for the broader range of organisations and practitioners involved in planning, implementing and evaluating integrated health promotion programs and activities.

Throughout this guide there are resources to assist agencies, organisations and practitioners to apply the theory of integrated health promotion to practice.

The resources include the following:

• Toolkits - These provide further information to supplement the main text of the guide. Toolkits often include lists of additional relevant resources such as other documents and web sites
• Checklists - These provide a series of questions to assist in applying a particular section of the guide to practice
• Case studies - These explore a concept in more detail by providing a detailed example.

The guide is designed to be printed as a tabbed resource kit (the Integrated Health Promotion Resource Kit), to make it easy to include new and updated resources in the future. More case study examples from agencies and organisations will be developed and disseminated as updates to the guide are made.

You can download the entire practice guide or specific sections of the practice guide below. The guide has eight sections.

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Download documents

Integrated health promotion resource kit - Entire practice guide (pdf, 562kb)

If you are looking for a specific section of the Integrated health promotion kit, the above PDF document has been split into eight sections:

Section 1

Introduction (251kb, pdf)
Gives an explanation of the purpose of the guide, how to use the guide and a definition of Integrated Health Promotion.

Section 2

Integrated Health Promotion in Victoria (219kb, pdf)
Covers the current policy context for the Primary Health Care Sector in Victoria, particularly in relation to integrated health promotion.

Section 3

Foundations for Health Promotion (205kb, pdf)
Outlines the foundations of, and gives a historical background to health promotion practice and principles and the broader determinants of health.

Section 4

Integrated Health Promotion Planning and Implementation (236kb, pdf)
Provides the common planning framework for program management both at the Partnership and individual agency level.

Section 5

Health Promotion Interventions and Capacity Building Strategies (265kb, pdf)
Considers in greater depth aspects of solution generation and capacity building.

Section 6

Evaluation and Dissemination (235kb, pdf)
Covers an introduction to evaluation processes, data collection and dissemination strategies.

Section 7

Useful Resources and Endnotes (218kb, pdf)
Includes references and website links for further information and the Endnotes Section.

Section 8

Other Information (49kb, pdf)

The Integrated Health Promotion Kit should be read with the following two publication supplements:

• Measuring health promotion impacts: A guide to impact evaluation for health promotion (2003)
• Planning for Effective Health Promotion (444kb, pdf)

For further information

If you have any questions regarding the guide, please contact:
Sue Psalios
(61 3) 9096 8478

or your regional health promotion officer.

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