ACTCOSS made a submission to the draft ACT Preventative Health Action Plan 2023-25. This submission to the consultation highlights ACTCOSS’ key concerns regarding the necessary inclusion of the social and environmental determinants of health in the Preventative Health Action Plan 2023-25. Our feedback highlights the importance of addressing the underlying causes as well as negative health outcomes of poverty, insecure housing and accelerating climate change.
Key Recommendations:
- Acknowledge the key role played by the community sector in preventative health
- Prioritise additional relevant populations, including people experiencing poverty,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with disabilities - Better alignment of priorities and actions with Canberrans concerns and the burden
of disease - Have more clearly defined, more readily evaluated actions, potentially through the
inclusion of an evaluation plan - More concretely respond to the growing preventative health challenges of climate
change and mental ill-health