Preventive Health Strategy
June 27, 2013
The Australian National
Preventive Health Agency has
launched the National Preventive
Health Research Strategy (2013-
2018) which will “guide knowledge-development
for a healthy
Australia through application of a
collaborative, integrated model of
research.”
It aims to foster approaches to
research and evaluation which
better enable all sectors to
implement the most effective
preventive health programs, and
“enable individual choices to be
evidence-informed.”
Specific priority-driven research
agendas for tobacco control,
obesity and harmful consumption
of alcohol are being developed.
The tobacco agenda is already
out, with the other two to be
released later this year.
“Through an extensive
consultation process the Agency
has developed this Strategy to
be the national guide for the
production of preventive health
knowledge through research
undertaken in partnership with
those that prepare and implement
with policy,” said ANPHA ceo Louise
Sylvan.
The strategy incorporates
research, systems, people and
culture, with the ANPHA saying that
while there’s a wealth of evidence
around what builds and affects
health, “more evidence on how to
build effective policies for change is
needed”.
The document says that primary
health care providers “have
important opportunities to initiate
and support actions with individual
patients, which build health and
prevent illness”.
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