Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
2 - Australia’s response to the call to action
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
'There are many positive changes that individuals and families can make, but if the environment in which they exist – where they work, live and play, interact and experience life – is not conducive to health, the impact of individual behaviours may be severely limited' (Quote from submission)
In October 2008 the Taskforce released a Discussion Paper, Australia: the Healthiest Country by 2020, backed up by three Technical Reports that presented detailed international and Australian evidence about obesity, tobacco and alcohol (see www.preventativehealth.org.au).