Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
6.4 Investing for maximum benefit
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 fourth rationale for selecting components of the Strategy is that of minimising opportunity cost – that is, the opportunities and benefits missed because of activities that have not been funded. This requires the redirection of resources away from cost-ineffective to more cost-effective interventions. Put simply, resources should be allocated where they yield the greatest benefit per unit cost. The approach taken by the Taskforce has been to work wherever possible from a well-researched evidence base – and where the evidence is not yet clear, to build evidence to inform future cost-effective investment in prevention activity.