30 November 2006

Health promotion seminar examines local health issues  

Local health will be in the spotlight this Friday, December 1 at a seminar organised by University of Canberra's newly established health promotion centre, the Healthpact Research Centre for Health Promotion and Wellbeing (HRCHPW).

Local topics will include Nutrition in ACT Schools; leisure and ageing in local women baby boomers; a holistic health service model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates of the Alexander Maconochie Correctional Centre; and an Evaluation of the Brindabella Women's Group.

Karin McDonald, MLA, representing the ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, will welcome the seminar participants.

Well-known social commentator, Jeff McMullen will highlight indigenous health and education issues during the delivery of his keynote address "When Literacy Means Life".  

Mr McMullen's address centres on the importance of literacy to help indigenous children break the poverty cycle and will look at projects underway to improve literacy in indigenous children.  

Mr McMullen's keynote address on education also emphasises the multidisciplinary approach by the HRCHPW.

Other topics of national interest being discussed at the seminar include active ageing, positive parenting; healthy eating and physical activity programs in long day care and family day care settings; communicating information to parents whose children are identified as outside the healthy weight range; and smoking cessation for adults experiencing specific inequalities.

The HRCHPW is a multidisciplinary research centre, working to conduct health promotion and wellbeing research and evaluation in partnership with other organisations and communities in the Australian Capital Territory. The Centre was established in 2005 at the University of Canberra and funded by the ACT Health Promotion Board and the University of Canberra.

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