30,000 fewer ‘red’ meals sold at The Alfred each year
Alfred Health has successfully slashed sales of unhealthy foods across all hospital sites by more than 30,000 meals each year as part of a new trial to tackle obesity and promote healthy eating.
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Understanding, measuring and strengthening rural and regional liveability
The Victorian liveability policy research program is extending its focus to explore liveability in regional cities and rural shires.
1st Annual STI Testing Week and Ministerial Roundtable on Sexually Transmissible Infections
Victoria successfully ran its first-ever STI Testing Week, from 10-16 September.
Working together with men to stop violence against women
Working Together with Men (WTWM) works with men from diverse ethnic backgrounds to actively develop and lead their own projects to prevent violence against women.
Promoting local action through place-based initiatives
Several place-based projects in Melbourne’s west have collaborated to produce a report on the many learnings and examples from their community focused initiatives.
Heart Foundation Unpacks the Salt
Victorians are consuming too much salt, which can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.
Dental Health Services Victoria and Zoos Victoria team up to fight oral disease in children
Dental Health Services Victoria’s (DHSV) Dr Deborah Cole said the partnership between DHSV and Zoos Victoria was about learning new ways to engage families so that poor oral health does not become a significant issue in the family.
St Paul’s Anglican Grammar gets healthy all round
St Paul’s Anglican Grammar is the first secondary school to achieve all eight health priority areas in the Achievement Program.