Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
2.1 - Feedback from consultations
- 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
Formal consultations were held in 16 metropolitan and regional sites across Australia, along with many meetings and 10 roundtable discussions that aimed to understand the views of particular groups and to encourage debate on issues such as the food supply, physical activity, sport, fitness and weight loss, alcohol supply, demand and harm reduction and tobacco control. There were consultations with Indigenous Australians (including a special consultation with the National Indigenous Health Equity Council), primary healthcare providers, food and alcohol industries, the recreation, sport, fitness and weight-loss industries, and the private health insurance industry, as well as researchers, urban planners and those driving health promotion in the workplace. Consultations were also held with all state and territory governments, with representation from a wide range of portfolios (see Appendix 3).
More than 400 submissions were received from a range of individuals, organisations, associations and governments (see Appendix 4). The Taskforce also took into account submissions about prevention that had already been provided to the Australia 2020 Summit, the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) and the House of Representatives Inquiry into Obesity.
Several comprehensive papers were commissioned on topics of particular interest to the Taskforce. Information from these papers has been incorporated into the Strategy. A list of the commissioned papers and authors is at Appendix 5.