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Preventing chronic disease

08 May 2013

Understanding health promotion: a short introduction

Health promotion is a rich area of ideas, approaches and research. Want the bite-size serve to begin understanding it?

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Population health

28 Jul 2013

VicHealth interviews Professor Ichiro Kawachi

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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Population Health

07 Sep 2012

VicHealth Indicators Survey at the Population Health Congress 2012

Presented at the Population Health Congress 2012 these posters give an overview of the VicHealth Indicators Survey and some of the data collected.

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Population Health

26 Jun 2013

VicHealth Indicators Survey at the Australian Health Promotion Association Conference 2013

This resource summarises the benefits for families sharing meals together and identifies factors associated with the behaviour. The data was collected in the 2011 VicHealth Indicators Survey.

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Healthy Communities

01 May 2002

Leading the Way: Councils Creating Healthier Communities

VicHealth resource designed to increase the level of understanding across local government about how social, economic and environmental factors can impact upon health and wellbeing.

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Child health

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.

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Child health

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?

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Health equity

04 Aug 2011

Housing and health: research summary

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.

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Health equity

04 Aug 2011

Precarious housing and health

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.

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Health equity

22 Aug 2012

Disability and health inequalities in Australia

A podcast of VicHealth's research summary is now available to download. It highlights the findings of the research summary published in 2012.

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Health equity

03 Mar 2011

Aboriginal health in Victoria - Research summary

This is a synopsis of the latest research examining the health status of Aboriginal Victorians.

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Mental wellbeing

24 Apr 2009

The Melbourne Charter for Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Mental and Behavioural Disorders

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.

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