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• Creating a healthier workplace with the Achievement Program

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/creating-a-healthier-workplace-with-the-achievement-program
  Australian Arrow Pty Ltd is one of over 900 workplaces that are creating a healthier workforce with the Achievement Program

• Bringing better health to the Latrobe Valley

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/bringing-better-health-to-the-latrobe-valley
  On 9 February 2014, embers from nearby bushfires sparked what was to become the largest and longest burning mine fire the Latrobe Valley has experienced. It burned for 45 days

• Adopting a systems approach at Monash Health Community

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/adopting-a-systems-approach-at-monash-health-community
  Monash Health Community (MHC) proudly supports individuals and communities to improve and maintain health, independence, and wellbeing.

• A Victoria free of the avoidable burden of disease and injury

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/a-victoria-free-of-the-avoidable-burden-of-disease-and-injury
  The Victorian public health and wellbeing plan 2015-2019 (the Plan) establishes an ambitious vision for the state of Victoria

• Delivering a systems approach to prevention in Victoria

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/delivering-a-systems-approach-to-prevention-in-victoria
  Population health issues are complex and caused by multiple underlying social determinants of health

• Delivering people-centred approaches

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/delivering-people-centred-approaches
  People-centred approaches are based on listening to what people want, and helping them live in their communities as they choose. To support health and wellbeing, Victoria is focusing on a range of actions

• Delivering place-based approaches

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/delivering-place-based-approaches
  Victoria recognises the fundamental role that location plays in our health and wellbeing. To support health and wellbeing, Victoria is focusing on a range of actions

• Healthy body, healthy mind: Aware Industries approach to physical and mental health

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/healthy-body-healthy-mind-aware-industries-approach-to-physical-and-mental-health
  Wodonga workplace Aware Industries provides labour solutions to businesses through providing work for people with a disability

• First annual Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Forum

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/first-annual-victorian-public-health-and-wellbeing-forum
  On 7 November, Mary Anne Thomas MP, the then Parliamentary Secretary for Health, hosted the first annual Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Forum

• Developing the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Framework

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/developing-the-victorian-public-health-and-wellbeing-outcomes-framework
  The Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Framework will help us to monitor and report progress on our collective efforts to achieve both better health and wellbeing for all Victorians as well as for particular groups of people in Victoria

• First ever Public Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Framework for Victoria

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/first-ever-public-health-and-wellbeing-outcomes-framework-for-victoria
  The Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Framework is a first for Victoria.

• Mildura's place-based effort for better health

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/mildura-s-place-based-effort-for-better-health
  Mildura Rural City Council resourced the Community Engagement Framework to bring a range of organisations together to address key indicators in Mildura's Social Indicators Report 2006

• Improving workplace health

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/improving-workplace-health
  Victoria's WorkHealth initiative is being redeveloped to support health and wellbeing across the Victorian workforce.

• Supporting healthy and sustainable environments

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/supporting-healthy-and-sustainable-environments
  Healthy and sustainable environments are critical to the health and wellbeing of current and future generations. A range of actions are commencing or underway.

• Working differently to deliver place-based health improvements

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/working-differently-to-deliver-place-based-health-improvements
  Monash Health is working in partnership with three local governments to deliver contemporary, place-based health promotion via the Achievement Program

• Taking Action

  http://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/taking-action
  The Victorian Government is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of all Victorians and the Victorian public health and wellbeing plan 2015-2019 outlines the priority areas for our collective attention.

• G21 Region Health Services Alliance working to Prevent Violence Against Women

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/g21-region-health-services-alliance-working-to-prevent-violence-against-women
  Four health services in the G21 alliance in the Barwon region are collaborating to collectively plan, act and report on the prevention of violence against women.

• Living Melbourne: our metropolitan urban forest

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/living-melbourne-our-metropolitan-urban-forest
  Connecting and extending green space and canopy cover are just a couple of initiatives in a new metropolitan wide urban forest strategy for Melbourne called Living Melbourne: our metropolitan urban forest. The strategy is a first for Australia, and one of the first in the world, and will support Melbournes rapidly growing city to protect and strengthen its natural assets.

• Creating healthy and liveable neighbourhoods in Cardinia Shire

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/creating-healthy-and-liveable-neighbourhoods-in-cardinia-shire
  Cardinia Shire's Liveability Plan 2017-29 is a collective commitment to enhancing the long-term liveability, health and wellbeing of the Shire.

• Engaging older people in physical activity

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/engaging-older-people-in-physical-activity
  A self-assessment tool is now available for organisations to reflect and review their physical activity programs for older people.

• After Hours care is always there

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/after-hours-care-is-always-there
  A new after hours campaign aims to raise awareness of available after hours medical services and reduce the volume of unnecessary emergency department visits.

• Balance for Better - Business

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/balance-for-better-business
  The Balance for Better: Business program aims to provide local workplaces with the information and tools to work towards a more gender equal workforce.

• Lead the change with healthy menu options

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/lead-the-change-with-healthy-menu-options
  Our vision at Western Leisure Services is to build healthier lives through recreation and aquatics.

• Victorian primary students on the move

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/victorian-primary-students-on-the-move
  Transform-Us is a whole-of-school approach to physical activity which promotes moving throughout the day to help students learn and improve their health and wellbeing.

• Future-proofing liveability and resilience across Melbourne's Interface Councils

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/future-proofing-liveability-and-resilience-across-melbourne-s-interface-councils
  DHHS East Division has joined forces with Mitchell Shire Council, Resilient Melbourne, DELWP and RMIT to identify the features that can ensure that greenfield developments in Melbourne's growth corridors can be liveable and resilient.

• Are we making a difference to the health and wellbeing of our community

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/are-we-making-a-difference-to-the-health-and-wellbeing-of-our-community
  Major initiatives across the Victorian Government and key government agencies addressing health and wellbeing are summarised in the Action Plan update.

• Detecting preventable health problems in newborns

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/detecting-preventable-health-problems-in-newborns
  A new video is now available aimed at newborn bloodspot screening staff in maternity services and explains what happens at the laboratory when the samples are received.

• Celebrating health every day of the week

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/celebrating-health-every-day-of-the-week
  Mildura Early Learning Centre held a week of fun for children, families and the community to celebrate meeting their Achievement Program benchmarks and the healthy changes that come with them.

• A healthy place for everyone

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/a-healthy-place-for-everyone
  Outlook Inc is using the Achievement Program to create a healthy place for staff and volunteers alike.

• Are we on track for healthy change?

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/are-we-on-track-for-healthy-change
  Progress measures provide feedback on whether our collective efforts are on track to achieving population health outcomes and targets.

• Hitting health goals from all sides

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/hitting-health-goals-from-all-sides
  One Primary Care Partnership discovered their own potential for health and wellbeing while promoting the Achievement Program.

• New year new Life

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/new-year-new-life
  Health professionals can play a key role in preventing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

• The next State public health and wellbeing plan

  https://prevention.health.vic.gov.au/blog/posts/the-next-state-public-health-and-wellbeing-plan
  This September will see the launch of the third State public health and wellbeing plan 20192023 (the plan). Legislated under Victorias Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, the Minister for Health is required to prepare a State public health and wellbeing plan every four years from September 2011.