Issue addressed Over the last three decades there has been an incremental investment in
health promotion and prevention across Australia; yet, the Commonwealth Government and …

" In April 2008 the Australian Government announced the establishment of a National
Preventative Health Taskforce (NPHT) with the primary function of developing a national …

The language of health promotion has been used increasingly under Australia's Labor
Governments of the 1980s. Most health-related governmental and community groups …

Recent Australian scholarship has provided a clear rationale for investing in health
promotion policy in Australia. 1 This is consistent with the aim of the Australian Health …

Issue addressed: A recent review of priorities for the Western Australian Health Promotion
Foundation's (Healthway) strategic plan provided us with an opportunity to consider the …

Over the last three decades Australia has very successfully adopted and applied the values,
methods, and practice of health promotion to improve the average life expectancy and …

Australia has a longstanding history of promoting health through programs that reflect the
principles of the Ottawa Charter and recognising the importance of social determinants of …

Issue addressed Australian efforts to tackle the burden from chronic diseases through
prevention have included numerous strategies, committees, policies and programs. This …

Health promotion's contribution as a unifying concept to wider public health developments
over the past thirty years has been unique and substantial. This discussion paper makes an …

We congratulate John on the award, presented at the AAHB annual meeting in South
Carolina in March 2011. population health planning is grounded in a social determinants …