Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
7.2 - Principles
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 principles underpinning the Strategy have been identified from evidence from the research literature, and confirmed through consultations and submissions to the Taskforce. In this first National Preventative Health Strategy, these principles guide action in relation to obesity, tobacco and alcohol, but they can also be used for other prevention issues such as mental health promotion or the prevention of injury or blood-borne viruses.
- Maximising community wellbeing – by building a roadmap with staged approaches for strategic prevention across the whole of life, in a variety of settings and for a wide range of population groups.
- Working together – with individuals, families, communities, health professionals, industry, employers and governments to build prevention in Australian communities.
- Addressing health equity – through recognition and response to the causes and effects of health inequity, especially for Indigenous people.
- Ensuring effective implementation – through a strong infrastructure that supports individuals and communities in making and sustaining healthy choices.