VicHealth applies a variety of health promotion approaches through its funding streams and research agenda, including methodological approaches that target the policy environment, community strengthening, personal skills development, organisational capacity and service delivery.

Following the development of the VicHealth Position Statement on Health Inequalities, determining the balance between focusing on the whole of the population, on disadvantaged communities or on the places in which they live was recognised as a key theme requiring further investigation, as emerging research could significantly inform the health promotion field’s capacity to tackle health inequalities.

This document aims to guide those planning health promotion programs to design interventions that have the greatest potential to reduce health inequalities. This is done by using an equity lens (Part I) in program design and by choosing the most effective health promotion approach to achieve project goals (Part II).

 People, Places, Processes