#CroakeyGo

What are the critical public health issues leading up to the November 24 Victorian election, and how are the parties responding to them?

On Friday 16 November please join us on a #CroakeyGO, a shared public act of walking journalism, as we explore the past, present and future of community health in inner city Melbourne.

Walking on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations, we will start the two-and-a-half hour event outside the office of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) – see its election platform asks.

This #CroakeyGO is co-hosted and sponsored by leading Victorian community health organisation cohealth. It aims to provide a platform for raising health issues ahead of the Victorian election, with a particular focus on the social determinants of health (SDOH) and health equity concerns.

In its 2018 Victorian Election Statement, cohealth advocates a ‘health in all policies’ approach and proactive work to address underlying drivers of ill-health, including inequality, stigma and discrimination, affordable housing and climate change.

It has particularly added its voice to calls for:

• a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander peoples
• affordable housing
• increased public dental funding
• fair and evidence based policy making in response to law and order
• alcohol and drug reform.

Read more here 

https://croakey.org/please-join-us-on-a-croakeygo-in-melbourne-for-vicvotes-focus-on-health/