title: Australia: the healthiest country by 2020.
abstract: In April 2008, the Australian Government established the National Preventative Health Taskforce to develop a National Preventative Health Strategy by June 2009. The Strategy will provide a blueprint for tackling the burden of chronic disease currently caused by obesity, tobacco and excessive consumption of alcohol. The Taskforce has produced a discussion paper, Australia: the healthiest country by 2020. It presents a wide range of options, some of them contentious, to achieve this ambitious target.
authors.affiliation: Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. r.moodie@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: A Rob
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Moodie
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D006291:Health Policy; D006292:Health Priorities; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*