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Health promotion strategies

Source: www.health.vic.gov.au
Topic: Promotion

Sort Desciption: Welcome to the second Health Promotion Strategies bulletin for 2007. This bulletin ..... Health Promotion Strategies is a quarterly production ...

Content Inside: Editorialpromoting CALD and multi-faith health Welcome to the second Health Promotion Strategies bulletin for 2007. This bulletin highlights the importance of health promotion in a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and multi-faith society. Australia is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse nations in the world. Our unique history has been shaped and enriched by the diversity of our people their cultures and lifestyles. While English is the dominant language spoken in Australia and most people are Australian born about three quarters of us identify with an ancestry other than Australian and some 41 per cent of people living in Australia were born overseas or have a parent born overseas. 1 The Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001 Census of Population and Housing data indicate there were 880407 people in Victoria who spoke a language other than English at home. This represents almost one in five Victorians (19.1 per cent). Of those people 15.6 per cent (177307 people) did not speak English well or at all. Our multicultural society continues to grow. Immigration figures indicate that there were 32297 new settler arrivals to Victoria in 200506. The countries of origin of these people (in decreasing order) were: India United Kingdom New Zealand Peoples Republic of China Philippines Sudan Sri Lanka MalaysiaVietnam and Singapore. 2 The Governments vision forVictoria Growing Victoria Together includes the goal of a fairer society that reduces disadvantage and respects diversity. In April 2005 Premier Bracks (also the Minister for Multicultural Affairs) released A FairerVictoriathe Victorian Government Social Policy Action Plan a $788 million investment aimed at improving access to services by reducing disadvantage and barriers to opportunities. In June 2006 a further $848 million was invested with one focus to address disadvantage within multicultural communities. Cultural Diversity Week (1723 March) provides an opportunity each y ...

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