Promoting health underlies all that happens at Gold Coast Public Health Unit. We deliver a range of health promotion and disease prevention initiatives with a focus on keeping communities healthy and connected.
The Gold Coast holds a long and proud identity as an active and healthy city. Driven by lifestyle, opportunity and innovation, the Gold Coast offers a work-life balance unachievable by most of the world’s major cities. However, like many of the world’s major cities, the Gold Coast has experienced an increase in preventable health conditions that negatively impact Gold Coast locals, their families and the greater community. Therefore, the health and wellbeing of our community is everyone’s business and in everybody’s interest.
What is Health Promotion?
Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. (The World Health Organisation, 2015).
What we do
- Work with the broader Gold Coast community in the places they live, learn, work and play
- Develop, implement and evaluate health promoting initiatives
- Collaborate with other key partners to improve the outcomes of our projects
- Support local, state and national strategies through our service delivery
- Communicate health messages using a range of platforms
For more information on health promotion email: GCPHU-HP@health.qld.gov.au.
