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Adelaide revisited: from healthy public policy to Health in All Policies
2007 Adelaide Thinker in Residence and Chair
of the Editorial Board
Chief Executive, Department of the Premier and
Cabinet, Government of South Australia
Chief Executive, Department of Health,
Government of South Australia
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Increasingly countries are looking for mechanisms and strategies to implement a Health in All Policies Process. In the following, we give a short overview of the recent experiences in the State of South Australia—a process in which all three authors of this editorial were fully involved. These developments have led—20 years on—to a rediscovery and revisiting of the Adelaide Recommendations on Healthy Public Policy, adopted at the Second International Conference on Health Promotion in Adelaide in 1988 (WHO, 1988).
THE CONCEPTUAL STARTING POINT
Health in All Policies is an innovative strategy that reflects the critical role that health plays in the economies and social life of 21st century societies. It introduces better health—improved population health outcomes—and closing the health gap as shared goals across all parts of government. It aims to address complex health challenges through an integrated policy response across portfolio boundaries. By incorporating a concern with health impacts into the policy development
THE CONTEXT FOR INNOVATION
THE HEALTH LENS ANALYSIS
THE POLICY-LEARNING PROCESS