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Communities, organisations, and government are working together to improve health and wellbeing across the state through prevention and health promotion.
The Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan brings these efforts together to create measurable change in health outcomes.
There is a range of evidence-based tools and resources to support prevention and health promotion action across a range of sectors and settings throughout the state. Many organisations and expert agencies have contributed to these tools and resources. The Victorian Government is proud to showcase their work.
Guidance and Tools
- Vic Kids Eat
- Healthy Eating Advisory
- Municipal public health and wellbeing planning
- Public Health Unit Information Hub
- Achievement
Measurement and data
- Victorian public health and wellbeing outcomes framework and data dictionary
- Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Data Dashboard
- Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health
- Victorian Population Health Survey
- Injury
Health Equity
Key definitions
In the most recent World Health Organisation report on the Social Determinants of Health , the following definitions and differences are described:
- Health equity – The absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically.
- Health inequities – The unfair and avoidable or remediable systematic differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically. Health inequities arise fundamentally from the unequal allocation of power, money and resources, which manifest in the unequal distribution of social determinants.
- Health inequalities – The observable differences in health between population groups. Health inequality is the metric by which health inequity can be assessed, meaning characteristics that stratify people’s power and access to opportunities should most closely reflect likely areas of unfair health differences.
Resources
Resources for strengthening health equity in your work include:
- Designing with communities – Victorian Government Co Design
- Conducting an equity assessment at planning stage – Gender Impact Assessment
- Measuring health equity – The Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Framework
Case studies
For many years, communities and organisations have been leading innovative projects to address the social determinants of health.
In addition to creating positive impacts for communities, many of these projects have also created learning, tools and insights that can be used by other organisations working in health promotion.
This snapshot features some of the great projects that took place in 2025.
Reviewed 10 December 2025