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Health promotion is a rich area of ideas, approaches and research. Want the bite-size serve to begin understanding it?
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.
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?
This document summarises the latest published research examining the links between housing and health. It is based on an evidence review and synthesis and recent Australian research commissioned by VicHealth, and a small number of additional sources.
This three-part project includes a comprehensive research synthesis of existing studies that examine the relationship between housing and health, new quantitative analysis of the ABS General Social Survey and the HILDA surveys, and new qualitative research with lone mothers aged 25 years and under.
A podcast of VicHealth's research summary is now available to download. It highlights the findings of the research summary published in 2012.
This is a synopsis of the latest research examining the health status of Aboriginal Victorians.
The Melbourne Charter for Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Mental and Behavioural Disorders is the outcome of a worldwide discussion initiated by the organisers and participants of the Global Consortium for the Advancement of Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health (GCAPP) conference.
The evaluation of these projects explores whether supporting economic participation is an effective tool for promoting mental health among young people.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Summary Sheet: Access to Economic Resources as a determinant of mental health and wellbeing.
Australia’s Progress in the 21st Century for the first time provides a scientific foundation to develop an indicator of progress that goes beyond gross domestic product (GDP) to measure how we are doing as a country and as a society, not just an economy.
Ichiro Kawachi, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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