Editorial – Is health promotion in Canada, or anywhere else, different from Australia?

Response to Editorial: Children, poverty and health promotion in Australia.

Your recent editorial ‘Children, poverty and health promotion in Australia’ highlighted opportunities for Australia to promote the health of future generations by ensuring the needs of children and families are prioritised. Missing in the case studies, even when the case was a woman with four children under six and another in utero, was mention of the key preventive intervention to improve chil...

Editorial--health education and health promotion.

SIR As pointed out in your recent editorial (1) my contribution to the 1984 'controversy' defended not health promotion in all its many guises, but rather one particular interpretation of it (2). I was suggesting that there is a model of health promotion (elaborated upon elsewhere (3) which included health education at its best (no doubt of the type of which Gill Williams 'approves'), and where...

Whole-school mental health promotion in Australia

Although there is increasing recognition internationally of the significance of social and emotional health and wellbeing for the healthy development of young people, the levels of support that governments provide for mental health policy and programme initiatives vary widely. In this paper, consideration is given to Australia’s approach to mental health promotion from early years to secondary ...

School-based health promotion across Australia.

Is it child abuse--or something else?