Useful Links

The following links are provided as resource materials for your own use. While BCHC has found information on these sites to be of use or interest, we do not in any way vouch for the accuracy or in any way endorse these organisations. We suggest that you use your own criteria to assess the usefulness of the sites and the information gained from them.

Bushfires - Before & After

Bushfires have the potential to impact on the health and wellbeing of your family, your community and yourself. It is important to look after yourself before, during and after the fire season.

Being prepared for a bushfire itself, or the risk of ember attack, disruption due to smoke exposure, heat, air quality loss of electrical power, loss of water supply, inability to access or leave the area.

The CFA booklet "living in the bush" provides essential information and aids to prepare a bushfire survival plan and prepare properties.

A download of this booklet, and other information, is available from the CFA site - link here.

The DHS "After the fires" fact sheet pack offers ways of coping with stress, looking after your general health and provides details on what financial assistance is available.

Link to the DHS site here.

Drought Assistance

The following links to the Department of Primary Industry and the Department of Human Services sites provide information relating to drought support; community support initiatives; counselling and personal support; farming information; financial assistance, water information and initiatives and useful publications.    

                      DPI Drought Assistance                           DHS Drought Assistance

W.H.O. Charters for Health Promotion

The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) held its first Global Conference in 1986 in Ottowa dealing specifically with Health Promotion.  This Conference was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world. Discussions focused on the needs in industrialized countries, but took into account similar concerns in all other regions. It built on the progress made through the Declaration on Primary Health Care at Alma-Ata, the World Health Organization's Targets for Health for All document, and the recent debate at the World Health Assembly on intersectoral action for health.

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment.

In 2005 the 6th Global Conference on Health Promotion was held in Bangkok.  The result of this Conference was the identification of major challenges, actions and commitments needed to address the determinants of health in a globalized world by reaching out to people, groups and organizations that are critical to the achievement of health.

The relevant documents can be found at the links below -

Ottowa Charter for Health Promotion                    Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion

Golden Plains Shire Health Promotion -             

Ballarat & District Nursing and HealthCare -       

Central Highlands Primary Care Partnership -