Health promotion

Australia

Australian Centre for Health Promotion

This Centre based at the Dept of Public Health & Community Medicine at the University of Sydney, aims to "contribute to better population health outcomes by working with practitioners to improve the quality of health policy and the effectiveness of health promotion practice through the application of research". The site contains details of current research programs and links to affiliated health promotion organisations and web resources.

Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA)

"The mission of the Australian Health Promotion Association is to provide knowledge, resources and perspectives needed to improve health promotion research and practice." The site includes access to abstracts and table of contents of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia as well as links to resources, publications, and links of interest.

Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Knowledge Network (AIHPKN)

This network aims to identify and develop the knowledge and skills of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion officers by means of discussion, debate, implementation of professional continuing education courses and acting as an advisory body on issues and work practices.

Bendigo Health Care Group

Health Promotion Coordination Unit is to facilitate the integration of a health promotion framework within Bendigo Health Care Group. This site includes health promotion information and an excellent A-Z listing of links to health promotion resources.

Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion.

A joint initiative of the AH&MRC & NSW Health Department. Includes full-text resources, e.g. The Public Health Bush Book, Program management guidelines in health promotion, and links to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sites.

National Public Health Partnership - NPHP

"The NPHP is responsible for identifying and developing strategic and integrated responses to public health priorities in Australia. Current public health priorities of the NPHP include addressing issues of healthy weight, communicable disease control, environmental health, injury prevention,child public health, information development and workforce development and planning."

The WWW VL Public Health : Health Promotion

This site contains links to many health promotion related web resources including organisations, conferences, research laboratories, research programs and health networks.

Reviews of Health Promotion and Education Online

This fulltext electronic journal is produced by the Monash University Faculty of Medicine Health Promotion Unit. The site also contains detailed submission and editorial information.

VicHealth: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation

This site contains contact details, links to web resources and information on the issues of public health, health promotion and health networks.

 

WA Centre for Health Promotion Research (WACHPR)

The WACHPR operates within the Division of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Western Australia. The primary focus of the Centre is research and the site contains details of current and completed research projects. Areas of particular interest include mental health, injury control, skin cancer prevention, smoking and community-based intervention research.

 

International

EPPI-Centre - The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre

"Social Science Research Unit (SSRU), Institute of Education, University of London.
The EPPI-Centre was established in 1993 to address the need for a systematic approach to the organisation and review of evidence-based work on social interventions. The work and publications of the Centre engage health and education policy makers, practitioners and service users in discussions about how researchers can make their work more relevant and how to use research findings. The EPPI-Centre is proud to be a formal partner of the Campbell Collaboration and to have co-directed the Cochrane Health Promotion & Public Health Field since 1996. "

Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand

"Health Promotion Forum is a national umbrella organisation for health promotion in Aotearoa-New Zealand working for a healthier society." They "rovide national leadership and support for good health promotion practice consistent with the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Ottawa Charter. More than 200 organisations nationwide are members. Their publications include Keeping up to date " a bibliography of reviews selected to represent a range of health promotion concepts and issues that are current and relevant to the field."

International Union for Health Promotion and Education - IUHPE

"The IUHPE is a leading global network working to promote health worldwide and contribute to the achievement of equity in health between and within countries... It works in close cooperation with WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, and other major inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations to influence and facilitate the development of health promotion strategies and projects."

Public health excellence at NICE

"National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has taken on the functions of the Health Development Agency to create a single excellence-in-practice organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health." (From July 2005 HealthPromis database will be decommissioned as an external service. Content that is not available on other websites (such as Medline), will be included in the the new NICE public health website.)

Institute of Health Promotion Research (IHPR)

This Institute, part of the University of British Columbia (Canada), aims to provide a focus for "interdisciplinary collaboration on research, education, and community partnerships in health promotion". The site contains information, publications and links to related web resources.

International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) : Regional Office for the South West Pacific

IUHPE is a leading international, non-government organisation with official status from the World Health Organization. The site contains information on members, projects, policies and links to related web resources.

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