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Health and Wellbeing Queensland Act 2019
sec.10Objective
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sec.10 Objective
The objective of Health and Wellbeing Queensland is to improve the health and wellbeing of the Queensland population, including, for example, by— reducing the burden of chronic diseases through targeting risk factors for those diseases; and poor nutrition, low physical activity, obesity reducing health inequity. higher rates of chronic disease in population groups with low socio-economic status than in population groups with high socio-economic status
- (a) reducing the burden of chronic diseases through targeting risk factors for those diseases; and Examples of risk factors for chronic diseases— poor nutrition, low physical activity, obesity
- (b) reducing health inequity. Example of health inequity— higher rates of chronic disease in population groups with low socio-economic status than in population groups with high socio-economic status