Category: NPHS: From Paper to Action
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What is preventive mental health?
Dr Stephen Carbone, PHAA Mental Health Special Interest Group co-convenor It has famously been said that there’s no health without mental health, so it’s wonderful to see the National Preventive Health Strategy include a specific focus on promoting and protecting mental health. But success in preventive mental health requires us…
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Time to enact food policies in the National Preventive Health Strategy
Dr Bronwyn Ashton and Damian Maganja, Co-Convenors of the PHAA Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group New data released on 27 June 2023 by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) showed that unhealthy weight and dietary factors continue to be the second and third largest preventable causes of…
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What are the commercial determinants of health, and why do they matter?
Melanie Parker, Public Health Association of Australia Commercial entities are now well known for being able to influence the health of people and populations. But untangling the ways that commercial entities influence people’s lives and health is an emerging, but still somewhat opaque, area that is stimulating the interest of…
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‘Don’t file it away’: Acting on the National Preventive Health Strategy will mean fewer people get sick
Melanie Parker, Public Health Association of Australia Clearly, unless change occurs soon, Australia will soon be facing an overwhelming chronic disease crisis. That warning, was emphasised in a new Grattan Institute report released on 13 February, which noted the concerning effects it will have on our already-strained health system and…