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Environmental
Health Planning and Action: A Handbook for Indigenous practitioners
uses simple
language to stress the importance of planning for action.
It also includes illustrations, provides useful examples and
includes worksheets and forms ready for use or adapting. The
text is written to suit readers of broad backgrounds and literacy
levels.
The Handbook
has been prepared specifically for community-based Indigenous
environmental health practitioners. Every attempt has been
made to make it appropriate to the needs and experiences of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities throughout
the country.
The Handbook
may be downloaded as one pdf file, the whole
Handbook (952KB) or in parts
as below.
Click
here to download the
first part of the Handbook. (349KB).
Other sections may be downloaded by
clicking on the links below.
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Table
of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
How to use this Handbook
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
TO COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PLANNING
Environmental Health and the Environmental Health
Worker
Community-based environmental health action planning
PART
2: COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PLANNING PRACTICE (472KB)
1. Deciding ‘where to’
2. Getting started
3. Finding partners
4. Keeping community control
5. Making things happen
6. Watching the future
PART
3: WORKSHEETS (79KB)
Worksheet
# 1: Where do you want to be?
Worksheet # 2: An Action Planning Worksheet
Worksheet # 3a: Community Partners List
Worksheet # 3b: External Partners List
Worksheet # 4: Action Plan Application Grid
Worksheet # 5: Activity Time Chart
Worksheet # 6: Log of community views
PART
4:
ACTION RESOURCES AND HELPFUL HINTS (230KB)
Committee Procedures: Holding a Meeting
Community Education
Focus groups
REFERENCES USED
and APPENDICES
1. Australian
Charter for Environmental Health
2. Glossary of terms
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