Municipal Public Health Planning Framework - Environments for Health

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Overview

Environments for Health provides a framework for planning that considers the impact on health and wellbeing of factors originating across any or all of the built, social, economic, and natural environments.

Irrespective of whether the topic is health promotion, urban planning, service development or building community capacity, the framework provides a practical guide to scanning for issues, researching, identifying action and setting priorities.

It is a tool to be used in developing, implementing and reviewing Municipal Public Health Plan (MPHPs) as legislated in the Health Act. This framework aims to ensure that MPHPs can effectively inform other planning processes and avoid duplication of planning effort at a local level.

Copies of Environments for Health can be obtained by contacting Public Health Division on tel. 9096 5200.

Environments for Health had a poster and an oral presentation at World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, April 2004

Evaluation

The Local Government Partnerships Team has recently appointed an external evaluation team from Deakin and Melbourne Universities to assess the introduction of the Environments for Health framework to municipal public health planning and to make recommendations for its future direction.

For more information see the Evaluation of Environments for Health Framework page.

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MPHPF contents

Foreword

1. MPHPF Introduction

PART A:

2. Introduction

3. Overview

4. Environments for health: A systems approach to municipal public health planning

PART B:

5. Introduction

6. Planning stages

7. Checklists

Appendix 1: Glossary

Appendix 2: Abbreviations

Appendix 3: MPHP reference group

Special notes page

Download version

Please note - The document below was published in October 2001, and some of the links within it no longer work. The web pages in this site contain the most up to date version of this document.

A New Framework for Municipal Public Health Planning - Environments for Health (released by the Public Health Group in October 2001) (560kb, pdf)

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Information on links to other sites

An important feature of the Framework is the listing of links to related resources at other websites. In the HTML version, these appear in the left hand column of sections 2 to 6.

Many of these links are to PDF documents, indicated by an Adobe PDF icon .

Although these documents are published on other websites, when you click on one of these links, you will not be taken to that website. Instead, the PDF document will download directly to your computer.

Note that some of these PDF files will be relatively large - possibly up to 2MB in size - so the download may take some time.

Understanding the relationship between the Integrated Health Promotion Resource Kit and the Environments for Health Framework

An introduction to the Integrated health promotion resource kit - For local government (62kb, pdf)

An introduction to Environments for Health: Municipal Public Health Planning Framework - For Primary and Community health agencies (63kb, pdf)

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