What is Integrated Health Promotion?
What is Integrated Health Promotion?
Role of Inner East PCP in Health Promotion
Vision for Health Promotion in the Inner East
About Integrated Health Promotion (IHP)
In Victoria, the term “integrated health promotion” means agencies in neighbouring areas working together to tackle priority health and well-being issues within their own community (DHS, 2005) by doing collaborative planning and carrying out shared projects.
This joint approach harnesses resources and effort from various organisations and
directs them to greater effect, rather than working in isolation. It also considers the broad determinants of health such as people’s environment and social circumstances. It is an approach that has proven successful both in Australia and overseas. (DHS, 2005).
Role of Inner East PCP in Integrated Health Promotion
To be successful, integrated health promotion is dependent upon agencies being willing
and able to form collaborative partnerships to support collective effort. Primary Care Partnerships are providing the platform for integrated health promotion to develop and thrive.
Within health promotion, the Inner East PCP:
• has a leadership role in supporting catchment planning to reduce duplication and fragmentation of effort to achieve consistency for a population health approach.
• strengthens the capacity of the service system to plan, implement and evaluate health promotion programs and to reorient services to be population health focused.
• directs resources and provides support to integrated health promotion implementation.
Vision for Health Promotion in the Inner East
The IEPCP vision for health promotion vision is to build healthy public policy, create supportive community environments, and provide opportunities for community action. These aspirations will be achieved by developing partnerships with community members and service providers who will work together to address broad social health determinants.
The Health Promotion Reference Group was established by IEPCP and comprises representatives from IEPCP’s member organisations. Priority issue working groups have been formed to progress work in our priority areas, and other member agencies participate where there is a strategic fit with their core work. The network’s members are: