Settings & environments

Health promotion can take place in a number of environments and setting. Partnerships and individual agencies are well placed to play a strong advocacy role in activities that support adherence to and enforcement of regulations and laws; or improve health and social conditions for particular groups (for example, women’s health or refugee advocacy).

The Department of Human Services funds health promotion activities to take place through a range of environments and settings.

These environments and settings include:

Local government

• Leading the way: Councils creating healthier communities - Resource kit

Hospitals

• Effective Discharge Strategy for Public Hospitals, sub-acute services and multi-purpose services

• WHO Collaborating Centre on Evidence based Health Promotion in Hospitals

• Standards for Health Promotion in Hospitals

• Health promoting health services - Hume region 2002 forum

• Health promoting emergency departments

Schools - School nursing Program

The School Nursing Program in Victoria consists of a Secondary School Program and a Primary School Program. Where it is possible nurses in both programs work together to conduct health promotion or health education sessions for students in preparation for transition from Primary to Secondary School.

Other Links: Health Promoting Schools

• Australian health promoting schools association (external link)

• SOFweb - health promoting schools (external link)

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Community and Women's Health agencies

Neighbourhood Renewal

Rural

• Rural Health
  

• Drought

• Small Rural Health Services Phase 2 project
  Please download the information sheet below:
  Small Rural Health Services extension phase 2 project information sheet July 2005-June 2006 (66kb, pdf)
  For further information regarding the Small Rural Health Service program see the Rural Health website.
  

Workplaces

Primary prevention of chronic disease in Australia through interventions in the workplace setting: a rapid review - commissioned by the Department of Human Services to determine what types of primary prevention programs in the workplace are most likely to be effective in preventing chronic disease.

Primary prevention of chronic disease in Australia through interventions in the workplace setting: a rapid review (437kb, pdf)

• Workplace health promotion - health promotion international

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