AHPA's Federal Treasury 2025-26 Pre-budget Submission was featured in this article, Putting a wellbeing economy, oral health leadership and workforce priorities on the Federal Budget agenda, published by Croakey Health Media on 12 February 2025.
In the submission, AHPA makes the following recommendations:
- Recommendation 1: Commit to a target of at least 5% of annual health expenditure being directed to health promotion and prevention
- Recommendation 2: Enhance funding for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the National Preventive Health Strategy 2021–2030
- Recommendation 3: Progress and advancement of an Australian Centre for Disease Control with a focus on health promotion
- Recommendation 4: Sufficient resources to address the broader determinants of health that significantly impact outcomes for individuals and communities
- Recommendation 5: Enhancing the Australian health promotion and prevention workforce.
Read the Croakey article here.