The development of this guide was based on previous work by Gippsland Primary Care Partnership and updated after collaboration between professionals and consumers from Melbourne’s west and inner north.

This guide has been developed to help Victorian health services produce or source quality health information for people who use their services.

As an outcome of this research and a recent roundtable, NPS MedicineWise and CHF will further explore what is practical in this space and find effective ways to work with consumers and all organisations involved to define best practice approaches and guiding principles for collection, use and sharing of health data.

This report outlines advice on possible improvements to Country Health Advisory Councils (HAC) governance arrangements and information provision and engagement activities.

The physical and social factors related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including obesity, noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, stroke, metabolic syndrome and some cancers, are multifaceted and complex (Ministry of Health [MoH], 2012a, 2012b, 2012c). One factor that may contribute to the inequitable burden of NCDs in Pacific people is health...