National Health and Climate Strategy Consultation Submission

Your Community Health recently contributed to the National Health and Climate Strategy consultation. 

We were pleased to hear about the establishment of the National Sustainable Healthcare Unit and the development of Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy (the Strategy). Our consultation submission details our belief that the Strategy takes a ‘Health in All Policies’, whole of government approach with tangible mechanisms for implementation including targets and funding to meet the needs of the community. We also share our recommendation that this imperative requires a nationally coordinated approach, led by the Department of Health and Aged Care (DHAC), to embed climate and health outcomes into the business of government. The Strategy must clearly outline how the Department will take a whole of government approach to embedding health across every portfolio, not just DHAC.