Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
6 - A conceptual framework for the Strategy
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
The following sections of this chapter relate to the rationale, structure and approach, as well as some of the important themes considered in the development of the Strategy
The purpose of the Strategy is to improve the health, wellbeing and life expectancy of Australians, and to remedy disadvantage in health status. Within this context, the components of the Strategy are based on the following four rationales:
- Influencing markets
- Inequities in health
- Developing effective policies
- Investing for maximum benefit
In a political economy that measures progress in terns of growth and consumption there are many underlying environmental, social and political determinants. In this context the introduction of policy and regulatory interventions is essential to make real impact (Quote from submission)