1. Department of Health and Ageing State and Territory Governments
Healthy Communities Initiative
National Centre for Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease
National Health and Medical Research Council
Leisure Industry
Food Service Sector
Non Governmental Organisations
Safe Work Australia
Infrastructure
Local Government Areas
Support
Media Campaigns
Research
National Heart Foundation
National Stroke Foundation
Department of Health and Ageing
State and Territory Governments
VIC, NSW, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT
National Preventive Health Agency
Pharmaceutical and Medicare Benefit Schemes

2. Local Government Areas
Schemes like the Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI) provide funding for Local Government Areas (LGAs) to deliver effective community-based programs targeting the risk factors of chronic disease at a community level, including smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical activity (SNAP) (DHA, 2012; ANPHA, 2009).
This can translate to creating and promoting healthy transport options, housing and urban planning decisions that respond to local needs as well as partnerships with community groups and healthy agencies (Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV), 2011).
For example local walking groups, cooking classes, cycling paths and subsidised group exercise programs (MAV, 2011).
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3. Infrastructure
Investment is occurring in all stages of the cardiovascular disease timeline including prevention, early detection and best practice health care across the acute to palliative spectrum (DHA, 2009). Some examples include:
$34 million project to support up to 7,500 rural nurses and 1,000 rural allied health professionals to access professional development courses (DHA, 2011c).
Improving recruitment and retention of health professionals in a rural setting through incentives (DHA, 2009).
$370 million project to establish 28 new GP Super Clinics and to upgrade around 425 existing general practices, primary health care and community health services, and Aboriginal Medical Services (DHA, 2011c).
$1.6 billion project to establish and operate 1,316 new subacute care beds and bed-based equivalent community based services (DHA, 2011c).
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4. Safe Work Australia
SWA facilitates the delivery of healthy living programs in the workplace to improve the health and wellbeing of workers and reduce their risk of chronic disease (Safe Work Australia (SFA), 2012). Video 1: Work Health Check Campaign (Work Safe Victoria (WSV), 2010)
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5. Federal Government Initiatives
National Health and Medical Research Centre
NHMRC invested more than $107 million in 2011 into cardiovascular disease research, which has translated into 590 active research grants (NHMRC, 2011).
National Centre for Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease
The National Centre for Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease analyses and reports on CVD trends, expenditure, prevalence and risk factors (DHA, 2011b).
Pharmaceutical and Medicare Benefits Scheme
$6 billion was contributed to the Pharmaceutical and Medicare Benefits Scheme to go towards treatment and management of CVD (DHA, 2011b).
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6. Partnerships with NGOs
Food Service Sector
Government partnerships with the food service sector to offer healthy choices and minimise choices high in fat, sugar or salt (ANPHA, 2009).
Leisure Industry
Government partnerships with sport, recreation and commercial fitness businesses to increase physical activity in the community (ANPHA, 2009).
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