Policy Statements

PHAA recognises the Ottawa Charter, Earth Charter and subsequent Global Conferences on Health Promotion as guides in its Policy Development

Ottawa Charter (PDF)

Earth Charter (PDF)

2nd Global Conference on Health Promotion: Adelaide, 1988
3rd Global Conference on Health Promotion: Sundsvall, 1991
4th Global Conference on Health Promotion: Jakarta, 1997
5th Global Conference on Health Promotion: Mexico, 2000
6th Global Conference on Health Promotion: Bangkok, 2005

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Public Health Association of Australia - Policy Statements

Policy Statements Category Index

*Please select a category to quickly and easily view the corresponding Policy Statements

	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health		Child Health
	Health Promotion		Drugs and Alcohol
	Ecology & Environment		Food and Health
	Infectious and Transmissible Disease		Injury
	International Health and International Trade		Mental Health
	Obesity		Oral Health
	Political Economy of Health		Primary Health Care
	Prisoner's Health		One Health
	Women's Health		Mental Health
	Immunisation

 Policy Index

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Substance Use
• Indigenous Health: The Continuing Consequences of Colonisation
• Research involving Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities
• Incarceration of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People (see also Prisoner's Health)
• Position Statement: Health Reform and the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector

 

 
Child Health

• Marketing of Food & Beverages to Children

 

 
Health Promotion

• Skin Cancer Prevention
• Bangkok Charter
• Responsible Advertising Policy

Drugs and Alcohol

• Illicit Drug Problems Policy
  
• Pharmaceutical Drug Misuse Policy
• Alcohol
• Tobacco Control
• Passive Smoking

Ecology & Environment
 

•  Position Statement: Human Health Effects of Wind Turbines
• Ecologically Sustainable Human Society
• Environmental Exposure and Human Health Policy
• Safe Climate
• Nuclear Industry 
• Nuclear Energy as a response to Global Warming
• Sustainable Population for Australia
• Preparing for Peak Oil
• Public Health Impacts of Nanotechnology
• Low Emissions and Active Transport

Food and Health

• Food & Nutrition Monitoring and Surveillance in Australia
• Food Security for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• Health Claims on Food
• Food, Nutrition and Health
• GM Foods

• Immunisation Policy

• Hepatitis C: Prevention and Control
• HIV-AIDS
• Smallpox: The Destruction of the Smallpox Virus
  

 

 
Injury

• Fall Injury Prevention in Older People
• Hot Water Temperature and Scald Burns
• Smoke Alarms in Residential Housing
• Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
• Firearms Injury Policy

 

 
International Health and International Trade

• Refugee Health
  
• Trade Agreements & Health
• Women's Health and Overseas Aid Programs
• Landmines
• Smallpox (see also Infectious Diseases)
• Maternal Mortality, Social Determinants of Health, Millenium development Goals in Asia Policy

 

 Mental Health

• Mental Health Policy

Obesity

• Promoting Healthy Weight:The Prevention & Management of Overweight and Obesity In Australia
• Physical Activity

 

     One Health

• One Health Policy

Oral Health

• Oral Health

 
Political Economy of Health

• Health Inequities

 

Primary Health Care

• Primary Health Care
• Gambling and Health
• Gambling Industry Funding

 

• Abortion
• Breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding background paper
• Gender and Health
• Lesbian & Bisexual Womens Health
• Domestic and Family Violence
• Emergency Contraception