Health Promotion – Action for a healthier Latrobe

Context, complexity, and leverage points are understood through:

• Systems mapping
• Intelligence gathering

Community is engaged and mobilised

Community demands change

Communication and marketing activates readiness and leadership for change

Places, influencers and partners understand the importance of their contribution to prevention:

• Readiness and leadership for change
• Problem recognition or reframing
• Vision setting
• Assessments and ratings
• Benchmarking

Places, influencers and partners formally commit to prevention through:

• Policy, strategy, standards, shared vision or actions
• Prevention embedded in strategic and operational plans
• Alignment or influencing policies and procedures
• Action plans and quality improvement plans

Coordinated and shared prevention language

Places, influencers and partners participate in prevention through:

• New initiatives
• Capacity building
• Rewards, resources and incentives
• Accessing services

Existing components are modified, improved and leveraged

Resources, marketing and communications collateral developed

Media coverage

Components aligned to match community need and demand

Initiatives are mutually reinforcing

Collaborative relationships and networks are strengthened to leverage change through:

• Participation in shared decision making (collaboration)
• Development of shared competencies and skills
• Sharing of data and systems
• Participation in networks and events
• Connecting partners and places
• Partners are connected outside of the health sector

Communities of practice established or continued

Place, influencers and partners lead local prevention action

Allocation of new or redistribution of assets and funding to meet prevention needs, including:

• Allocation of internal and external staffing
• Key performance indicators developed
• Investment in resources and incentives
• Links created to external funding

A skilled workforce built through professional development

Policy, components and action embedded in places

Healthy options are available and environments are health promoting:

• Place changes
• Healthy and unhealthy options

A comprehensive system is available to as many people as possible, through:

• System spread
• System depth
• System sustainability
• Shifts in system ownership
• Outcomes precede impacts