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VicHealth strategy
Physical activity, sport and walking: VicHealth’s Investment Plan (2014 to 2018)
To get more Victorians active including through sport and walking, VicHealth’s strategic approach focuses on making physical activity participation part of everyday living, and competitive and social sport.
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Supporting diversity
Everyone Wins – Community sporting clubs
This version aims to assist Victorian community sports clubs to build healthier sporting environments that are more inclusive and welcoming of everyone in their community, particularly women, girls, Aboriginal people and people from culturally diverse communities.
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Physical activity and sport
A Sporting Chance: The Inside Knowledge on Healthy Sports Clubs
What do healthy sports clubs have in common? Regardless of the sport played, successful clubs have a long, strong history, a commitment to including others, and a family and social focus.
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Project evaluation
Healthy Sporting Environments Demonstration Project - Evaluation
The evaluation of VicHealth’s pioneering Healthy Sporting Environments Demonstration Project has given us a better understanding of how health promotion can be weaved through grassroots sports clubs.
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Participation in physical activity
VicHealth established a focus on increasing social and economic participation as a key priority area for action during 2009–13. This research summary provides a brief update on published research examining physical activity participation.
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Supporting diversity
Everyone Wins – State Sporting Associations (SSAs)
This version aims to assist SSAs to build healthier sporting environments that are more inclusive and welcoming of everyone in our community, particularly people with a disability, Indigenous Australians, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and women and girls.
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Increasing participation
PICSAR: Sharing the stories
Since 2007, through its funded organisations, PICSAR has created a diverse range of opportunities for physical activity participation. This has had a very positive impact on promoting and supporting inclusion in the sport and active recreation sector.
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Building health through sport
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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Physical activity and sport
Understanding barriers to sport participation
VicHealth identified specific segments where participation in sport remains problematic: those with a low income, people with a disability and new arrivals to Australia. This report provides a better understanding of the barriers to participation and ongoing involvement in sport.
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