Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
5.1 - A phased approach
- 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
What follows are the most important actions in each of the areas of obesity, tobacco and alcohol. Detailed implementation plans for obesity, tobacco and alcohol, describing a full set of actions, responsibilities, phasing and measures, are included in the accompanying chapters of this document.
The actions are phased and sequenced over time, as it will not be possible or appropriate to initiate all actions in phase one.
The first phase of four years sets in place the urgent priority actions. The second phase builds on these actions, learning from new research, the experiences of program implementation and the national trials carried out in the first phase. The third phase ensures long-term and sustained action, again based on learnings from the first two phases.
As a means to encouraging and supporting action across Australia the Taskforce proposes the establishment of an online national forum for organisations, local governments, businesses and industry, community groups, families and individuals to share their commitments and plans to making Australia the healthiest country.
This will be complemented by the development of a national recognition and award scheme for outstanding contributions, large and small, to making Australia the healthiest country by 2020.