Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
8.7 - Future funding models for prevention
- 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
Sustainable and cost-effective funding models are vital to support a comprehensive and integrated approach to prevention. This approach includes adequate funding for research infrastructure, program design and delivery, workforce planning and resourcing, social marketing, surveillance and monitoring and evaluation. Whilst the primary healthcare setting has been the most recent model, and an important focus in terms of the development of suitable funding models for preventative health, this must not be at the expense of other settings or sectors that also contribute to and enhance health outcomes.
The NPA may be well positioned to guide and inform the identification, examination and development of future funding models for prevention through:
- The investigation and provision of advice in regard to potential funding options for prevention, both within and external to the health sector
- The investigation and provision of advice in regard to the potential development of a funding framework for prevention, both within and external to the health sector, to guide the development and use of a number of funding models