Community Engagement

Public Health Units have Prevention and Population Health teams to support ‘communities to live healthier lives through place-based prevention and population health initiatives delivered in partnership with local organisations’.

Identification and engagement with key stakeholders (health, local government, community services and community groups, schools etc.), across a broad range of settings will maximise the reach and impact for;

• implementation of health promotion interventions at both the individual and population-wide level
• actions which enable capacity building.

Practice guides;

To support this work, below are practice guides for

• Communication, messaging and social marketing – refer to key Community outlets (diagram below)
• Checklist for community events
• Planning guide to support maximum impact and an integrated multi-strategy approach;
  – increase the awareness of specific health issue/diseases and inform community on how to prevent, prepare and respond.
  – Prevention and Health Promotion strategies for community awareness and engagement