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24 Jun 2009

Sharon Thorpe & Karen Adams: Food security issues with Victorian Aboriginal communities

Access to nutritious and affordable food is a key determinant of achieving health equality and closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Food and healthy inequities

24 Jun 2009

Sharon Goldfield: The Kids in Communities Study

This research seeks to explore a novel and policy relevant question: what modifiable factors account for the fact that the social gradient typically found in child development is not manifest in certain areas?

Child health

23 Aug 2011

Kellie Horton - Health and housing

On August 4, VicHealth and Hanover Welfare Services put the spotlight on the links between housing and health in Australia, with the launch of two new reports.

Precarious housing

15 Sep 2010

Kids in Communities Study 2010 update - Sharon Goldfield

The Kids in Communities Study: measuring community level factors influencing children's development. Dr Sharon Goldfeld, Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

Child health

23 Aug 2011

Kate Mason - Health and housing

On August 4, VicHealth and Hanover Welfare Services put the spotlight on the links between housing and health in Australia, with the launch of two new reports.

Precarious housing

24 Jun 2009

Andrew Hollows & Rebecca Bentley: Mitigating negative health outcomes of precarious housing

This research project shall investigate links between housing and health.

Precarious housing

26 Nov 2012

State Sporting Association Participation Program

The State Sporting Association Participation Program 2011–14 (SSAPP) is a pilot program, administered by VicHealth in conjunction with 30 State Sporting Associations (SSAs).

Increasing Participation

06 Nov 2020

VicHealth Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan

VicHealth’s commitment to better health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is outlined in our new Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

Health equity

11 Nov 2020

VicHealth’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan

Letter from the CEO

LETTER FROM THE CEO

21 Aug 2020

Budget strain sees families left to rely on unhealthy food

A new VicHealth survey shows that more than 1 in 4 (26 per cent) Victorian families have been left to rely on unhealthy food due to home budget pressures during the first coronavirus lockdown.

Unhealthy food marketing

27 Jul 2020

Five public health lessons coronavirus has taught us

Coronavirus has put health at the top of the agenda for governments, businesses and communities all over the world. How can we seize this moment to make the future healthier for everyone?

healthy tips

17 Apr 2018

Participation versus performance

Managing (dis)ability, gender and cultural diversity in junior sport.

Participation in sport