title: Health in All Policies: evaluating the South Australian approach to intersectoral action for health.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Health in All Policies (HiAP) has been promoted as a means of embedding concern for health impacts in the policy-making process. In South Australia, specific structures and processes to achieve this have been developed and tested.
  
  
  METHODS
  The HiAP approach is designed to engage policy officers and managers in all sectors of government.
  
  
  METHODS
  South Australia, one of six Australian states, which operates under a system of cabinet government. There are 15 government departments.
  
  
  METHODS
  The primary mechanism of the South Australian HiAP approach is the health lens analysis (HLA) - an intersectoral, partnership process drawing on public health research methods. It has been applied to three separate public policy issues: water security, digital technology and migration.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Evaluation findings to date suggest that the HLAs have resulted in the following: increased understanding by policy-makers of the impact of their work on health outcomes; changes in policy direction; development and dissemination of policy-relevant research; greater understanding and stronger partnerships between health and other government departments; and a positive disposition toward employing health lens analyses in future work.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There have long been calls for intersectoral action in order to achieve public policy supportive of positive health outcomes. Evaluation to date suggests that the HLA is a promising means of moving the agenda from policy rhetoric to policy action.
authors.affiliation: South Australian Community Health Research Unit, Flinders University. angela.lawless@flinders.edu.au.
authors.forename: Angela P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Lawless
authors.forename: Carmel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wildgoose
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sawford
authors.forename: Ilona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kickbusch
mesh_terms: D006076:Government; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000379:methods*; D013021:South Australia
keywords: health policy; public policy; public sector