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03 Dec 2013

Creating Healthy Workplaces program

VicHealth's Creating Healthy Workplaces Program partners with Victoria's foremost researchers, business and industry to promote health and prevent illness.

Pilot Projects

20 Jun 2013

Reducing stress in the workplace

Exposure to workplace stressors is widespread and is related to a substantial fraction of common chronic diseases.

Creating Healthy Workplaces

03 May 2015

Creating Healthy Workplaces publications

VicHealth’s Creating Healthy Workplaces Program (2012–2015) built a substantial body of knowledge about how to promote good health and prevent chronic disease in the workplace. It specifically focused on identifying best practice approaches for addressing alcohol-related harm, prolonged sitting, stress, race-based discrimination and violence against women.

Creating Healthy Workplaces

01 May 2006

Workplace Stress in Victoria: Developing a Systems Approach

As part of its Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan 2003–2006, VicHealth is exploring the links between work, stress and broader health outcomes to gauge the extent of the problem and identify ways of addressing it.

Creating Healthy Workplaces

05 Oct 2010

Estimating the economic benefits of eliminating job strain as a risk factor for depression

This study found that "job strain", where workers have little control over their job, but who are under high pressure to perform, accounts for 17 per cent of depression in working women and 13 per cent in working men.

Creating Healthy Workplaces

07 Oct 2010

Economic cost of job strain - Tony LaMontagne

The Estimating the Economic Benefits of Eliminating Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Depression report was funded by VicHealth and led by Associate Professor Tony LaMontagne from the University of Melbourne School of Population Health and Dr Kristy Sanderson from the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania.

Creating Healthy Workplaces

06 Oct 2010

Report shows preventable job stress costs $730m a year

Excessive pressure at work is costing Australia’s economy $730 million a year due to job-stress related depression, a University of Melbourne and VicHealth report has revealed.

Creating healthy workplaces

10 Aug 2016

Transitioning the Valley initiative to boost Latrobe Valley health and jobs

The poll is closed, the people of Latrobe Valley have spoken and Transitioning the Valley has been named the winner of the VicHealth Community Challenge, seeing off strong competition from ALT_ART and ‘Get Stuffed’.

Initiative to boost health and jobs in Latrobe Valley