Health Promotion

The Health Promotion team at Eastern Health works in partnership with the community and other key organisations to enable people to take control of their health. While many Eastern Health services offer treatment and education for individual patients when they get sick, Health Promotion looks at how we can improve health and prevent illness on a community level using best practice frameworks and principles. Our focus is not necessarily on particular diseases. Instead we aim to improve people’s health by focusing our work on the social, economic and environmental conditions that lead to good health.

Health Promotion delivers projects or initiatives in partnership with:

Community leaders
Local Government
Sporting clubs
Schools and early childhood centres
Community Health services
Other organisations outside the health care system

The goal of the Health Promotion team is:
‘To enhance and improve the health of the community in the Eastern Region, Eastern Health staff and consumers through the provision of high quality health promotion action’.

The Health Promotion Team is currently working on the 2022-2025 Integrated Health Promotion plan, which is delivering multiple strategies under 4 priority areas.

The plan is currently in development and will be publically available in late 2022.

Healthy and Active Living

- Increasing healthy and sustainable food and drink choices
- Increasing active living
- Reducing harm from alcohol and other drugs including tobacco and E-cigarettes
- Resilient, respectful and inclusive communities

Respectful, Resilient and Healthy Communities

- Building capacity for respectful relationships and the prevention of violence against women

What have we achieved?

Health Promotion reports annually on the impact and process used in its programs. The links below are to reports that outline the impacts of our work and what we have learned: