What is Integrated Health Promotion?
"the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realise aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is, therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. 
Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy lifestyles to wellbeing." 
The Ottawa Charter (1986).

"The social model of health is a framework for thinking about health. Within this framework, improvements in health and wellbeing are achieved by addressing the social and environmental determinants of health, in tandem with biological and medical factors.
DHS Integrated health promotion resource kit, a prectical guide for service providers (2008).

Some of the determinants of health include:
The social gradient; income and social status
Transport
Food security
Addictions and substance misuse
Social exclusion
Early life
Gender
Education
Discrimination
Social connection
Violence
Physical activity
Personal health prectices and resilience
Environments
Social exclusion


Health Promotion Network
The Health Promotion Network hasrepresentatives from CHPCP member organisations and welcomes non-member organisations from across the Central Highlands Region who have a commitment to or interest in Integrated Health Promotion. The network has a shared interest and commitment in activley participating in best practice health promotion with the communities of the Central Highlands Region.


2009 - 2012 Integrated Health Promotion Plan
In 2009 CHPCP member agencies worked in partnership to develop the 2009 - 2012 Integrated Health Promotion Plan  - Click here
This plan is a living document and will change over the next three years to accommodate new and emerging local needs and policy directions.  The plan is supported by the following evidence document - click here

Priorities for the 2009 - 2012 Plan are:
Healthy Lifestyles
Themes of work in this priority area include:
- Increase access to and consumption of nutritious foods.
- Increase knowledge and skills about healthy eating.
- Increase access to and participation in physical activity.
- Reduce harm caused by alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
- Reduce harm from gambling.

Links to current work documents on this theme:
National Health Promoting Schools Framework - click here

Mental Wellbeing
Themes of work in this priority area include:
- Freedom from discrimination.
- Accessible opportunities/activities for all.
- Create opportunities for accessing economic resources and information (including work, education, housing and money).

Links to current work documents on this theme:
Mental Health Promotion Working Group on QIPPS - click here

Sexual and Reproductive Health
Themes of work in this priority area include:
- Engane all the CHPCP members to actively participate in the development of a sexual and reproductive health strategy.
- Integrate sexual and reproductive health in to the work undertaken with the other two CHPCP Integrated Health Promotion priority areas.
- Embed (or to increase understandingof) sexual and reproductive health as a component of overall health.

For further information about the Health Promotion Network please click here. 

For further information about Integrated Health Promotion in CHPCP please contact Anita Collett, Health Promotion Coordinator, 03 5338 4775 or email healthpromotion@chpcp.org

A range of resources, and research documents related to these areas is located in the Resources area of the website.  

Useful Websites
Victorian Government Health Information - Integrated Health Promotion 
Go for your life
Australian Health Promotion Association
Integrated Health Promotion Resource Kit