2024 Primary Healthcare Awards: Promoting Health Living

Justine Moore, Belinda Smith and Kate Mason of Making Friends With Food by The Root Cause (formerly known as The Children's Health Program), winners of the 2023 Promoting Healthy Living award.

Our Promoting Healthy Living award recognises projects encouraging people to take ownership of their own health and wellbeing. 
 
Promoting good health and the prevention of disease is vital for primary health care. Activities that promote healthy living could include: 
 
⭐ encouraging healthy behaviours in all areas of life, such as school, the workplace and at home 
 
⭐ projects designed to increase health literacy, empowering people to access, understand and act on health information and services to make appropriate decisions about their health 
 
⭐ raising awareness of the social, cultural and environmental factors which cause chronic disease 
 
⭐ projects aimed at reducing hospital admissions. 
 
The Primary Healthcare Awards honour the hard work and dedication of healthcare workers in the primary care setting, and recognise the contribution the Murrumbidgee community makes to improving health across the region. 
 
Submissions are open until 8 September 2024. 
 
For more information, please visit mphn.org.au/awards