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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.

• What is health promotion?
  This section outlines the foundations of health promotion and describes what integrated health promotion is.

• Steps in health promotion
  This section outlines planning, implementation and evaluation.

• Populations and settings
  This section looks at population groups and settings and environments.

• Evidence & evaluation
  This section aims to support the workforce to make better use of research evidence and to improve how programs are evaluated.

• Resources
  Gateway to useful resources on Consumer & Community Participation, International websites, Professional association and journals and many more topics.

• Stakeholders
  This section looks at the role of the Department and partnerships.

• 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.

• Contact information
  This section provides relevant contact information for health promotion.

The Better Health Channel is the department’s community-focused website, 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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