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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 and 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.

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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Last updated: 17 March, 2009
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