Health Promotion Service

The Health Promotion Service is a unit of the Directorate of Planning, Population Health and Equity.
 
The Health Promotion Service works in partnership with communities to develop local projects and initiatives that aim to support healthy people and healthy places. Our primary focus is on:

• promoting health and wellbeing
• encouraging people and communities to be actively involved in their health care decisions
• reducing health inequities
• developing local actions that address local needs.

By engaging communities in decisions about their health and wellbeing we aim to empower communities and work in partnership with them to create environments that support health and wellbeing, build resilience within communities and identify local actions to address local needs.
We are also responsible for the local implementation of statewide programs that focus on a range of health related risk factors such as smoking, obesity and falls prevention.  
 
Guided by state and local plans and strategies, the work that we do aims to:

• promote health and wellbeing
• reduce health inequities
• involve communities in planning and implementing services and local actions

Our priority program areas include:

• Falls Injury Prevention
• Healthy Children Initiatives
• Healthy Adults Initiatives
• Tobacco Control
• Healthy Environments  

To find out more about the Health Promotion Service, and its programs, email: myna.hua@health.nsw.gov.au