1. Potential health outcomes of a VicHealth-funded project

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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).