This action plan details VicHealth’s partnership approach to promote health in the sports setting. It outlines specific activities that will be undertaken with the sports sector over the next three years to address priority health areas for action.
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This action plan details VicHealth’s partnership approach to promote health in the sports setting. It outlines specific activities that will be undertaken with the sports sector over the next three years to address priority health areas for action.
How much you earn, your social position, your level of education or your capacity to be involved in activities that help connect you to others in your community are important factors in determining your health and wellbeing. Social disadvantage, material deprivation, and poor living and working conditions are clearly linked to poor health. Tobacco use, alcohol misuse, physical inactivity and an unhealthy diet also contribute to ill health. Consequently, to promote health in a population and prevent disease, we need improvements to social, economic, cultural and physical environments, in addition to supporting individuals to make healthy lifestyle choices.
The role of sporting organisations in contributing to these improvements is clear.
