Resources

Victorian Community indicators Project
VicHealth has funded a team lead by Victoria University to work with local governments to develop an agreed framework for selecting and developing indicators of wellbeing and to explore a sustainable system for reporting on and using the indicators for planning and citizen engagement.

Selecting & accessing population data - An information resource. This 2001 publication was written to assist Primary Care Partnerships in accessing data to identify priority health issues in the community.
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/pcps/publications/population_data.htm

Getting to Know Your Community - a guide to using local data has been produced by the Office of Community Building to meet the information needs of communities and support local community planning. A 'first of its kind', it is both an excellent guide to all community statistics on local communities produced by state government, and a tool for communities to compile a community profile of their own community.

WHO (1999). Towards a new planning process: A guide to reorienting urban planning towards Local Agenda 21 (book3)
WHO Book 3 (560kb, pdf)

WHO (1999). Community Participation In Local Health And Sustainable Development: A Working Document On Approaches And Techniques (book 4)
WHO Book 4 (272kb, pdf)

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