Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
1.2 - Prevention is everyone’s business
Table of contents
- Chair's Foreword
Chapter 1: Building preventative health in Australian communities- 1 - Vision, purpose and call to action
2 - Australia’s response to the call to action- 3 - The need for action
- 4 - What we know: prevention works
- 5 - Taking action
- 6 - A conceptual framework for the Strategy
- 7 - The roadmap for prevention
- 8 - Ensuring effective implementation
- 9 - Conclusion – a call to action
- References
- Chapter 2: Obesity in Australia: A need for urgent action
- Chapter 3: Tobacco: Towards world’s best practice in tobacco control
- Chapter 4: Alcohol: Reshaping the drinking culture in Australia
- Appendices
'Given the multiple social determinants of health, it is clear that a prevention agenda requires cross sectoral, multilevel interventions that extend beyond the health sector into sectors such as housing, welfare, justice, immigration, employment, agriculture, education, family and community services, Indigenous affairs and communications' (Quote from submission)
The Strategy is for all Australians, not just governments. Throughout the Strategy, the Taskforce has identified comprehensive and staged directions that rely on mutual support between those who will benefit (individuals, families and communities) and those who can provide the infrastructure and support to enable effective action (governments, industry, the non-government and business sectors).