National Preventative Health Strategy
Australia has a strong and successful health system, but we need to ensure that there is an equally strong prevention system for our future. Our current health system mainly focuses on treating people once they are already unwell. This Strategy aims to keep people healthy and well in the first place by making changes to the health system overall and the environments around us. This will help all Australians live in good health and wellbeing for as long as possible. This Strategy includes several sections that describe what Australia needs to do over the next 10 years to improve the health and wellbeing of all Australians at all stages of life through prevention. These are:
- four overarching aims that describe what the Strategy is intending to achieve. These aims include targets that will allow us to measure and track the progress of the Strategy
- seven principles that need to be considered in all actions that are implemented to enhance prevention in Australia
- seven enablers that are critical to shift the health system focus to prevention
- seven focus areas that require stronger and better-coordinated action to reduce the risks of poor health and wellbeing.
