Garth Alperstein

Implementing a strategic plan for child health: A Sydney case study

Aim:  The aim of this paper is to describe the implementation of a strategic plan, Health Gain for Children and Youth of Central Sydney, over a 10‐year period to December 2005.

The development and implementation of a strategic framework to improve Aboriginal child development and wellbeing in far west NSW: a collaborative approach

In 2005, the Maari Ma Chronic Disease Strategy of the Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation in far west NSW identified the importance of addressing the fetal, infant and child origins of chronic disease in adults. In 2008a process for developing a strategic framework to improve the development and wellbeing of children was initiated. The process incorporated all organisations involved with children. A multisectoral working group was established to facilitate the development of the strategic framework which was published in 2009 and a Project Officer was employed by Maari Ma to implement it. This included working with agencies that have the potential to affect the social determinants of health. It is anticipated that, in the medium to long term, this approach will contribute to reducing the rate of chronic disease in adulthood, and reduce the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health outcomes.

Development of a child and youth health report card for Central Sydney, 2000.

This article describes how the first Child and Youth Report Card for the Central Sydney Area Health Service (CSAHS) was developed. The purpose of the Report Card is to contribute to the improvement of child and youth health outcomes through supporting service planning by providing regular information on the status of child and youth health in CSAHS to managers, planners, health professionals and other relevant stakeholders in child and youth health.

Guest editorial: Directions for child health in the 21st century

Due to the high level of interest shown in the four-part series on improving the health of children in NSW, published in the May, June–July, October and November 1998 issues of the NSW Public Health Bulletin, this fifth issue in the series has been produced to review the progress achieved in child health since then.

Guest Editorial: Strategies to achieve health gains for children

This issue is the third in the series about improving the health of children in New South Wales. It looks at evidence-based strategies capable of achieving needed health gains for children.

Guest Editorial: Child health: Key programs and strategies to achieve health gains

This is the fourth and final issue in the series exploring ways of improving the health of children in New South Wales. It examines the implementation of key programs and strategies to achieve those health gains.

Editorial: Monitoring child health

Systematic monitoring of health is not a modern phenomenon. In the late middle ages, governments in Western Europe established rudimentary systems of monitoring ‘illness’.

Editorial: Improving the health of children in NSW

At the close of the 20th century, health services for children in NSW have accomplished significant achievements. However, many challenges lie ahead.