Community Activities & Projects
The Health Promotion team at West Wimmera Health Service work closely with our communities, always doing their best to listen to what people want and need at the local level to increase opportunities for health and wellbeing.​
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Explore our activities and projects below and discover how you and your community can get involved.
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To find out more about our Health Promotion team and their latest projects, email: health.promotion@wwhs.net.au
What we offer
About Health Promotion
So what is Health Promotion anyway? Usually, people think of contacting a health service when they are already unwell or concerned about their individual health. But what keeps people healthy in the first place? That is where the Health Promotion team can help!
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What is Health?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as:
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A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
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What is Health Promotion?
The WHO definition of health promotion is:
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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.
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What do we do?
We work across a broad range of communities and issues, always focussing on the social determinants of health but also supporting and/or developing smaller scale projects.
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The social determinants of health are the conditions in which we are born, we grow and age, and in which we live and work. The factors below impact on our health and wellbeing.
