Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy - Overview
Strategic directions
Table of contents
- Chair's Foreword
- The purpose of the Strategy; What is in the Strategy?
- The need for urgent, comprehensive, prioritised and sustained action; What will be different because of the Strategy?
- Prevention works; Progressive, staged and comprehensive action
The Strategy – summarised, prioritised and phased- The conceptual framework for the Preventative Health Strategy
Strategic directions- 1. Shared responsibility – developing strategic partnerships
- 2. Act early and throughout life
- 3. Engage communities
- 4. Influence markets and develop connected and coherent policies
- 5. Reduce inequity through targeting disadvantage
- 6. Indigenous Australians – contribute to ‘Close the Gap’
- 7. Refocus primary healthcare towards prevention
- Ensuring effective implementation – the national infrastructure for prevention
- Conclusion – a call to action
- References
- Acknowledgements
The Taskforce has identified seven critical strategic directions to be developed and implemented consistently and collectively for the National Preventative Health Strategy to be effective.
- Shared responsibility – developing strategic partnerships
- Act early and throughout life
- Engage communities
- Influence markets and develop connected and coherent policies
- Reduce inequity through targeting disadvantage
- Indigenous Australians – contribute to ‘Close the Gap'
- Refocus primary healthcare towards prevention