Potential health outcomes of a VicHealth-funded project

Use the following slides as the starting point for further research into a VicHealth-funded project

Health action area: Creating active communities Goals: To increase the number of people who walk and/or cycle as a means of transport, including the number of primary school children walking to and from school Programs: Walk to School Challenge Ride2School Walktober Taking it to the streets

Health action area: Promoting healthy eating Goals: To increase the number of Victorians eating nutritious food, particularly those experiencing social, economic or geographic disadvantage Programs: Food for all ‘Healthy food’ postcards City of Brimbank welcome kit

Health action area: Promoting mental health and wellbeing Goals: To improve the mental health and wellbeing of all Victorians, in particular those who are most vulnerable because of their social, economic or geographic circumstances Programs: Community festivals AFL Respect and Responsibility program

Health action area: Reducing smoking Goals: To further reduce the harms associated with smoking and second-hand tobacco smoke Programs: Quit

Health action area: Supporting other health action areas Goals: (for example) To further reduce the harms associated with alcohol consumption Programs: Don’t turn a night out into a nightmare

Health action area: Promoting equity in health Goals: (for example) To improve the health and wellbeing of the most disadvantaged in our community Programs: Rainbow program for children in refugee families

The following clarification has been provided in response to enquiries about VCE Health and Human Development, Unit 3 Area of Study 2 key knowledge: the role of VicHealth in promoting health including its values, priorities and how it reflects the social model of health. Since the writing of the VCE Health and Human Development Study Design and the publication of text books, VicHealth has listed new values and priorities on its website. The VicHealth priorities as identified in the VicHealth Strategy and Business Plan 2009–2013 are: reducing smoking improving nutrition reducing harm from alcohol increasing physical activity increasing social and economic participation reducing harm from UV exposure.

VicHealth envisages a community where: health is a fundamental human right, everyone shares in the responsibility for promoting health everyone benefits from improved health outcomes ‘Our mission is to build the capabilities of organisations, communities and individuals in ways that: change social, economic, cultural and physical environments to improve health for all Victorians strengthen the understanding and the skills of individuals in ways that support their efforts to achieve and maintain health.’ Because there has been some confusion about what to teach as VicHealth values in Unit 3 Area of Study 2, for 2010 (only) it will be acceptable for students to refer to either the VicHealth Mission statement or the values expected from VicHealth employees (brave, creative and just).