Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
5 - Taking 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 is no denying the enormity of the tasks that lie ahead in implementing the Preventative Health Strategy. However, this represents the required response that is in proportion to the severity of the problems Australia faces with obesity, tobacco and the harmful use of alcohol.