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Health promotion is a rich area of ideas, approaches and research. Want the bite-size serve to begin understanding it?
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.
Presented at the Population Health Congress 2012 these posters give an overview of the VicHealth Indicators Survey and some of the data collected.
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.
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.
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?
A podcast of VicHealth's research summary is now available to download. It highlights the findings of the research summary published in 2012.
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.
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 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.