Health Promotion

Our focus on health promotion (HP) aims to enable people to maximise health and well being from an individual and community perspective. We have a commitment to planned evidence-based health promotion activities which involve inter-sectorial and community partnerships across the

The Service's Health Promotion Plan is based on the social model of health. It recognises that the causal processes impacting on the community's health status consist of psychosocial and environmental factors as well as individual ones.

The Health Promotion principles address:

• The broader determinants of health

• The reduction of inequalities

• Community participation and leadership

• Partnership and collaboration with the health and non health sector

• Sustainability

• Considering all strategies for community well being

• All available data and evidence

• Planning, evaluation and documentation

The 2003-2004 Health Promotion Plan is based on a review of services, health status and demographic data. The identified priority issues are:

• chronic disease

• physical activity_injury

• mental health

• social connectedness

Useful Links

• Inner South East Partnership in Community Health (ISEPICH)
  www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/about_isepich.htm
  
  

• Kingston Bayside Primary Care Partnership (KBPCP)
  www.kingstonbaysidepcp.org.au
  
  

• Victorian Department of Human Services
  www.dhs.vic.gov.au
  
  

• Australian Centre for Health Promotion
  www.health.usyd.edu.au/achp
  
  

• Australian Health Promotion Association
  www.healthpromotion.org.au
  
  

• World Health Organisation
  www.who.int/en
  
  

• Primary and Community Health Network
  www.latrobe.edu.au/aipc/pchnetwork
  
  

• VicHealth
  www.vichealth.vic.gov.au
  
  

• Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
  www.health.gov.au