Health Promotion
Population health principles embrace the following:
- Considers and acts on the social, environmental and behavioural determinants of health
- Focuses on populations or specific groups within populations rather than individuals
- Gives priority to preventing ill health and promoting and developing good health
- Acts to reduce differences in health status between groups and within the population
By adopting these principles Population Health will:
- Focus on the health of populations and disadvantaged groups within those populations, adopting health equity as an explicit goal
- Focus on addressing the determinants of health and the interaction between these factors
- Work in collaboration and partnership with health workers, other agencies and communities.
- Provide leadership and advocacy for improving population health
- Foster the capacity of agencies and communities to address population health issues.
With Population Health having such a broad range of activities and working on determinants of health, our collaborators and customers also are many and varied and include:
- Local Government
- Divisions of General Practice
- Health care workers inc Health Service staff and GPs
- Media
- Aged Care Facilities
- Child care Facilities
- Universities and other tertiary institutions
- Laboratories
- Government Departments and agencies
- NSW Food Authority
- Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation
- Department of Environment and Conservation
- Department of Education and Training
- NSW Cancer Council
- Department of Natural Resources
- Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability
- Department of Primary Industries
- Community organisations and the public