Australian Better Health Initiative

Healthy Weight Introductory Course

Would you like to know more about healthy weight?

The Healthy Weight Introductory Course has been developed for staff in primary health care and community care settings who:

• work with families and children

• have limited or no prior training or background in nutrition or physical activity or their relationship to body weight

• would gain value from updating existing knowledge

• have opportunities to address these issues in their work.

The course aims to provide an introduction to concepts, guidelines and issues underpinning a health promoting approach to healthy weight. It will:

• Introduce a healthy weight framework

• Summarise the benefits of healthy weight

• Introduce South Australia’s Strategic Plan (SASP) healthy weight target

• Promote understanding of the recommended guidelines for nutrition, physical activity and breastfeeding

• Provide an overview of the state and national healthy weight picture.

Click on the link below to download the Healthy Weight Introductory Course Participant’s Manual.

For more information on when and where the next Healthy Weight Introductory Course is being run contact the Health Promotion Branch on (08) 8226 6329.

Healthy Weight Introductory Course Participant’s Manual