Invitation

NSW Health Promotion Networks invite your participation in the Symposium.

The focus will be to explore, promote and discuss the issues emanating from the theme of Challenges and Successes in Achieving Equity-Focused Outcomes. A principle function of the Symposium is to build the capacity of health promotion practitioners of NSW by profiling the outcomes of state funded programs. Support initiatives, such as an information package, have been developed and will be available to assist delegates in submitting an abstract and in developing a presentation.

Following the successful 2006 & 2008 Health Promotion Symposiums, initiated by the NSW Health Promotion Workforce Development Network and the NSW Health Promotion Research and Evaluation Network, the 2010 Symposium is being led by:

• The Workforce Development Network
• The Research and Evaluation Network
• The Health Equity Practice Network
• with the support of the Communication Network

Achieving Equity is a challenge and this is an opportunity to profile challenges, opportunities and successes in achieving ‘equity focused outcomes’.

Supported by the NSW Health Promotion Director’s Forum, the NSW Centre for Health Advancement and sponsored by the NSW Institute of Rural Clinical Services and Teaching and the NSW Branch of the Australian Health Promotion Association, the symposium is a valuable opportunity to learn from the challenges and successes across the breadth of current initiatives taking place in our dynamic area of population health practice.

We invite abstracts to be submitted that describe health promotion practice and what it has achieved, with a particular focus on equity. All abstracts must include how their program planning, implementation or evaluation addressed equity. Preference will be given to those abstracts that focus on a disadvantaged population, social determinant of health, and/or NSW Health priorities (obesity prevention, tobacco control, falls injury prevention). The conference themes are:

• Equity in relation to health promotion priorities (eg obesity prevention, tobacco control, falls injury prevention)
• Social Determinants of Health (early life, ecosystem sustainability, education, employment and working conditions, food security, health care systems, housing, income, social inclusion and welfare support system)

The Symposium has been designed to highlight major health promotion initiatives in NSW and how the health promotion investment in NSW will achieve population level targets. At the same time health promotion in NSW needs to include a focus on equity, and those groups of people who are disadvantaged, and work in areas beyond the direct control of the health sector.