'Punching above their weight': a qualitative examination of local governments' organisational efficacy to improve the social determinants of health.

CONCLUSIONS: Victorian local government has strongly adopted the socio-ecological model of health and is aware of the important role that its diverse policy and program areas play in creating healthy communities. The Victorian State Government's priorities, which adopted a more 'downstream' approach, were less influential. Implications for public health: State governments' priority settings should be responsive to local governments' unique local knowledge of health priorities. There is value in legislating a social determinants role for local government, provided it is supported by state and national government policies that facilitate public health. PMID: 30457190 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research