Department of Human Services

Better health for all: Better health for all: Population-wide policy to reduce inequalities in healthPopulation-wide policy to reduce inequalities in health

VicHealth Forum14 April 2008

Dave TrudingerSocial Policy Branch

……for another discussionfor another discussion

Questions to focus…Questions to focus…

What creates effective

population-wide policy?

How can external actors influence population-wide

policy?

How close to effective

population-wide policy is Victoria?

Population-wide policyPopulation-wide policy

Population-wide policyPopulation-wide policy…context…context

Population-wide policy Population-wide policy …problem…problem

Population-wide policy Population-wide policy …solutions…solutions

Population-wide policy Population-wide policy …timelines…timelines

What creates effective population-wide What creates effective population-wide policy to reduce inequalities in health?policy to reduce inequalities in health?

How can external actors influence How can external actors influence population-wide policy?population-wide policy?

• The focus of advocacy• sequential• answers better than questions

• The value proposition of health promotion

• Know where value is added

• Policy resonance more important than policy primacy

What have we covered…What have we covered…

What creates effective

population-wide policy?

How can external actors influence population-wide

policy?

How close to effective

population-wide policy is Victoria?

Department of Human Services

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