Welcome to our first edition of the Tasmania Together eNews for 2010.

Featured Goal

This edition of eNews focuses on Goal 4 – Active, healthy Tasmanians with access to quality and affordable health care services.  This is an extremely important goal for Tasmanians covering a number of priority areas, including obesity, diabetes Type 2, smoking and avoidable deaths.

Move Well Eat Well  

The Move Well Eat Well project is going from strength to strength. What's different about it? And why are schools finding it so useful?  To find out, read more...

The Premier’s Physical Activity Council and Tasmania Together – targeting priority health issues for Tasmanians

Obesity, diabetes Type 2, physical inactivity and avoidable mortality rates are the focus of a new partnership agreement between the Tasmania Together Progress Board and the Premier’s Physical Activity Council. 

 Read more...

 

Snapshot of Progress 2009

One of the success stories of the recently released 2009 Snapshot of Progress was a reduction in the number of avoidable deaths amongst Tasmanians.

If you want to know how Tasmania performed in 2009 in other areas, then go to the Tasmania Together website:  www.tasmaniatogether.tas.gov.au

     Kids Come First and the Tasmanian Child Health and Wellbeing Survey

Eighty-nine per cent of Tasmanian children under 13 years have excellent or very good general health and 93.4 per cent of Tasmanian babies are fully immunised at the age of 2 years old.

These are just some of the key findings to come out of the Kids Come First Report and the Tasmanian Child Health and Wellbeing Survey

To view the full reports, click on the links below:

• Tasmanian Child Health and Wellbeing Survey Report 2009 (730 KB - 82 pages)
• Kids Come First Report 2009 (3.97 MB - 100 pages)

Working Towards Better Nutrition in the Workplace

The HOVER project (Healthier Options in Vending - an Employer Resource) is an exciting new area of work focusing on the issue of the availability of healthier food options in workplaces

Want to help you employees to get healthy?   Then read more...

  Working It Out – supporting the Tasmanian LGBTI community

Working It Out provides support, resources and projects to build supportive local networks and capacity for the health and wellbeing of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community in Tasmania.

To find out about the sorts of projects Working It Out are embarking on, read more...

Much more than a sponsorship says Asthma Foundation

Over the last decade, the Asthma Foundation of Tasmania began making significant changes that have assisted in accomplishing Tasmania Together’s fourth goal of making quality health services accessible to Tasmanians.

According to their CEO, Cathy Beswick, it is no coincidence that the Foundation started a relationship with Aurora Energy almost ten years ago.

To see how this collaboration is helping Tasmanians, read more...

     Promoting Physical Activity at Work

The workplace is a key setting to increase the physical activity levels of Tasmanians.

To find out how the Premier’s Physical Activity Council is supporting Tasmanian workplaces to improve the health and wellbeing of their employees, read more...