Projects & publications in health policy
Over the last 10 years, our major projects and publications have addressed a variety of important and emergent health policy challenges.
Our work has covered a range of issues including chronic disease prevention and risk factors, health care financing, co-morbid mental and physical health conditions, health inequities related to socio-economic disadvantage, sleep health, oral health and the availability and collection of population health data.
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- Reconceptualising healthy eating for improved nutrition policy (PDF, 952.93 KB)
- Enhanced Primary Care for Healthy Ageing: Literature Review (PDF, 5.04 MB)
- Social Prescribing in the Australian Context: A national feasibility study report (PDF, 5.64 MB)
- National Consumer Engagement Strategy for Health and Wellbeing (PDF, 2.74 MB)
- Health Engagement Learning Platform: The HELP Toolkit (PDF, 4.35 MB)
- Getting Australia's Health on Track 2024 (PDF, 1.56 MB)
- Australia's Health Tracker: Chronic Conditions by Socioeconomic Status 2024: report (PDF, 1.09 MB)
- Australia's Health Tracker: Chronic Conditions by Socioeconomic Status 2024: technical paper (PDF, 577.96 KB)
- Dietary approaches to support mental health: Policy evidence brief 2024 (PDF, 1.25 MB)
Being Equally Well: Ending the neglect of physical health for people with serious mental illness
- Being Equally Well Implementation Action Plan 2022 (PDF, 2.3 MB)
- Being Equally Well Commonwealth Budget 2022-23 Proposal 2022 (PDF, 336.36 KB)
- Increasing research evidence translation & utilisation to improve population health outcomes 2022 (PDF, 627.06 KB)
- Infographic: What can public policy do to improve the translation of evidence into public health policy & practice? (PDF, 72.47 KB)
- Infographic: Policy options to protect and improve low smoking rates, particularly in priority populations (PDF, 67.09 KB)
- Scaling, integrating and better supporting people with mental disorders to engage in employment and/or education 2022 (PDF, 7.55 MB)
- Improving tobacco cessation rates in priority populations 2022 (PDF, 843.01 KB)
- Australia’s Health Tracker by SES 2021 (PDF, 834.19 KB)
- Australia's Health Tracker by SES 2021, Technical Paper (PDF, 715.35 KB)
- Being Equally Well: A National Policy Roadmap to better physical health care and longer lives for people living with serious mental illness 2021 (PDF, 561.63 KB)
- Being Equally Well Technical Report Vol. 1: The Project Report 2021 (PDF, 1.84 MB)
- Being Equally Well Technical Report Vol. 2: Appendices of Information and Evidence 2021 (PDF, 2.31 MB)
- Being Equally Well Snapshot 2021 (PDF, 422.15 KB)
- Getting Australia's Health on Track 2021 edition (PDF, 1.51 MB)
- Getting Australia’s Health on Track Technical Paper 2021 (PDF, 608.75 KB)
- COVID-19 and Early Childhood Education and Care report (PDF, 1.44 MB)
- Being Equally Well project overview (PDF, 163.51 KB)
- Improving the mental health of young people in tertiary education settings 2021 (PDF, 772.95 KB)
- Children, young people and health in Brimbank (PDF, 1.27 MB)
- Australia's Gender Health Tracker 2020 (PDF, 406.41 KB)
- Australia’s Gender Health Tracker Technical Appendix 2020 (PDF, 1.18 MB)
- Australia's Health Tracker by Area: Smoking Summary Report 2020 (PDF, 5.08 MB)
- NSW Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Tracker 2020 (PDF, 1.34 MB)
- Integrating health promotion in early childhood education and care settings 2020 (PDF, 2.49 MB)
- Supporting physical activity promotion in primary health care 2020 (PDF, 864.17 KB)
- Physical Activity Promotion in Primary Health Care - Policy Evidence Brief – Short 2020 (PDF, 966.17 KB)
- Self-care and health: Learning from COVID-19, Report (PDF, 1.38 MB)
- Self-care and health: Learning from COVID-19, Summary (PDF, 1.07 MB)
- Self-care for health: A national policy blueprint 2020 (PDF, 427.33 KB)
- Self-care and health: Learning from COVID-19, Report (PDF, 1.38 MB)
- Self-care and health: Learning from COVID-19, Summary (PDF, 1.07 MB)
- Nutrition policy in Australia: Adopting a harm minimisation approach 2020 (PDF, 875.69 KB)
- Australia’s Health Tracker 2019 (PDF, 927.44 KB)
- Australia’s Health Tracker 2019 Technical Appendix (PDF, 1.28 MB)
- Australia’s Adult Health Tracker 2019 (PDF, 224.45 KB)
- Australia’s Children and Young People Health Tracker 2019 (PDF, 186.98 KB)
- Targets and indicators for chronic disease prevention in Australia 2019 (PDF, 1.17 MB)
- Is Medicare Fair? The Distribution of Medicare Benefits Across the States and Territories 2019 (PDF, 12.71 MB)
- Is Medicare Fair? The Distribution of Medicare Benefits Across Cities and Countries 2019 (PDF, 12.6 MB)
- Is Medicare Fair? Out of Pocket Medicare Costs Across Australia 2019 (PDF, 13.86 MB)
- Australian Health Services: Too Complex to Navigate 2019 (PDF, 2.29 MB)
- Australia's Health Tracker by Area: Alcohol Summary Report 2019 (PDF, 1.34 MB)
- Improving Australia's mental and physical health: A connected approach 2019 (PDF, 787.53 KB)
- Improving brain and body health: Linking dementia and chronic disease prevention 2019 (PDF, 1.78 MB)
- Integrating the prevention agenda for brain and body health 2019 (PDF, 734.71 KB)
- Sport participation and play: How to get more Australians moving 2019 (PDF, 1.97 MB)
- Australia’s Mental and Physical Health Tracker 2018 (PDF, 606.74 KB)
- Australia’s Mental and Physical Health Tracker Technical Paper 2018 (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- Australia’s Oral Health Tracker 2018 (PDF, 151.45 KB)
- Australia’s Oral Health Tracker Technical Paper 2018 (PDF, 1.46 MB)
- Growing Brimbank Evaluation Framework 2018 (PDF, 1.64 MB)
- Active School Travel: Pathways to a Healthy Future Technical Paper 2018 (PDF, 2.66 MB)
- Better data for better decisions: The case for an Australian Health Survey 2018 (PDF, 336.18 KB)
- Active School Travel: Pathways to a Healthy Future 2018 (PDF, 681.21 KB)
- Australia’s Health Tracker by SES 2017 (PDF, 751.64 KB)
- Australia’s Health Tracker by SES 2017 Technical Appendix (2019) (PDF, 1.03 MB)
- The State of Self-care in Australia 2017
- The State of Self-Care in Australia – Technical Appendix 2017 (PDF, 861.31 KB)
- Growing Brimbank Time for Reflection 2017 (PDF, 1.16 MB)
- The Brimbank Spatial Map of Physical and Social Infrastructure 2017 (PDF, 3.68 MB)
- Heart Health: The first step to getting Australia's Health on Track 2017 (PDF, 457.06 KB)
- Heart Health: The first step to getting Australia’s Health on Track Technical Paper 2017 (PDF, 1.42 MB)
- Australia’s Health Tracker 2016 (PDF, 1014.51 KB)
- Australia’s Health Tracker 2016 Technical Appendix (PDF, 3.49 MB)
- Australia’s Adult Health Tracker 2016 (PDF, 218.81 KB)
- Australia’s Children and Young People Health Tracker 2016 (PDF, 159.94 KB)
- Getting Australia’s Health on Track 2016 (PDF, 1.35 MB)
- The Costs and Impacts of a Deadly Combination: Serious Mental Illness with Concurrent Chronic Disease 2016 (PDF, 1.23 MB)
- Investing in Women's Mental Health: Strengthening the Foundations for Women, Families and the Australian Economy 2016 (PDF, 1.92 MB)
- Targets and indicators for chronic disease prevention in Australia 2015 (PDF, 930.23 KB)
- Chronic diseases in Australia: Blueprint for preventative action 2015 (PDF, 1.37 MB)
- Chronic diseases: Commitment to changing course 2015 (PDF, 674.85 KB)
- Beyond the fragments: Preventing the costs and consequences of chronic physical and mental diseases 2015 (PDF, 1.65 MB)
- Development of Australian Chronic Disease Targets and Indicators 2015 (PDF, 622.2 KB)
- The case for change towards universal and sustainable national health insurance and financing for Australia: Enabling the transition to a chronic condition focussed health care system 2015 (PDF, 2.7 MB)
- Suitability of the WHO 25 x 25 Chronic Disease Targets and Indicators for Australia 2015 (PDF, 1.14 MB)
- Chronic Diseases in Australia: the case of change 2014
- AHPC Policy Discussion with Professor Joseph Stiglitz 2014 (PDF, 263 KB)
- The Influence of Childhood Circumstances on Adult Health – Report 2014 (PDF, 955.73 KB)
- Physical Activity, Sport and Health in the city of Brimbank 2014 (PDF, 1.33 MB)The Brimbank Atlas of Health and Education 2014 (PDF, 2.96 MB)
- Growing Brimbank – A Collaborative Approach to Lifting Health and Education Outcomes (PDF, 475.22 KB)
- AHPC Policy Roundtable Summary: The influence of childhood circumstances on adult health 2014
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