Aboriginal Road Safety Health Lens
Aboriginal Road Safety Health Lens project identifies ways of increasing Aboriginal healthy life expectancy by improving road safety
Health Lens Analysis projects
The Health Lens Analysis (HLA) is a key feature of the Health in All Policies (HiAP) model and is an emerging methodology used by the South Australian government to translate the HiAP concept into action.
It outlines a series of steps that can be practically applied to South Australian Strategic Plan (SASP) targets by a range of government agencies.
HiAP aims to identify key interactions and synergies between SASP targets, policies and strategies and population health and wellbeing.
A range of well established methodologies and tools are used to examine these connections in a rigorous and systematic manner.
There are five essential elements included in the health lens analysis process that underpin its effectiveness and ability to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes:
- Engage: establishing and maintaining strong collaborative relationships with other sectors. Determine agreed policy focus.
- Gather evidence: establishing impacts between health and the policy area under focus, and identifying evidence-based solutions or policy options.
- Generate: producing a set of policy recommendations and a final report that are jointly owned by all partner agencies.
- Navigate: Helping to steer the recommendations through the decision-making process.
- Evaluate: Determining the effectiveness of the health lens.
Project collaborations
The Health in All Policies unit works collaboratively with representatives from a number of government departments (partner agencies) on Health Lens Analysis (HLA) projects. The projects are based around South Australia’s Strategic Plan targets or other key government priorities.
