Health Promotion in Gippsland

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Introduction

The Gippsland Health Services Partnership is a regional level partnership of agencies from the health sector and local government. The Partnership has agreed to work toward catchment level health promotion plans for the 2009-12 period, and to focus on the priorities of physical activity, healthy eating, mental health promotion and sexual and reproductive health.

Presented below are a series of guidance materials for an agreed portfolio of health promotion interventions for the priority areas of physical activity and health eating. They provide guidance on both implementation and evaluation, and provide the starting point for Primary Care Partnerships in Gippsland to lead a catchment planning process and ultimately prepare a catchment level plan for each priority area for the 2009-12 period.

These guidance materials have been prepared with the assistance and support of Monash University Gippsland Medical School.

Size and distribution of problem

This section provides relevant local, regional, Victorian, interstate and international data on measures of weight, physical activity and eating patterns in different settings and target groups. See Size and distribution of problem.

Interventions

This section contains advice about the strength of evidence that exists for each intervention and detailed advice including resources for implementation and evaluation. Click here to go to the page.

• Strength of evidence of effectiveness
• Physical Activity
• Healthy Eating
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Mental Health
• Target groups and settings

These pages identify which of the above interventions are suited to these target groups and setting. See Interventions.

Evaluation Design

• Study design
  This section provides broad guidance on ethics and study design considerations for relevant settings in which the interventions are delivered
• Measurement for impact evaluation
  This section provides guidance on how to collect relevant impact indicators including the tools and measurement instruments used.

See Evaluation Design.

Gippsland Health Promotion Conference 2011

The Gippsland Health Promotion Task Group committee wishes to recognise the health promotion achivements made by organisations and partnerships in sharing results and sustaining action.

 Conference details and registration

Feedback or requests for information

Please direct any feedback about Gippsland Health Online to Public Health, Primary Health and Planning Team on (03) 5177 2500