Rural Health Services

Building Healthy Communities

The publication "Building Healthy Communities - A Guide for Community Projects" is a guide for people in small rural communities who want to try new ways to make a difference to chronic disease at a local level.

Table of contents

Introduction

About chronic disease
International, national and local approaches to chronic disease
What's in this guide

Stage 1 - Before you begin

Types of chronic disease projects
What is your project about?
What is needed?
Who can help?
The project plan
Developing a budget
Project plan worksheet
Measuring the project
Preparing a funding submission

Stage 2 - Running a project

Getting off to a good start
Checking the project plan
People
Communicating
Evaluating
Reporting
Administration
Problems and solutions

Stage 3 - Winding up

As you finish
Learning and evaluation
Final evaluation
Final report
Sustainability
Celebrating
Checklist at project end

More on evaluation

What is evaluation?
Evaluation plan
Step 1 - Project planning
Step 2 - Indicators
Step 3 - Collecting information
Step 4 - Analysing information
Step 5 - Reporting your results
Working example
Working example - step 1
Working example - step 2
Working example - step 3
Working example - step 4
Jane's completed evaluation plan
Different methods for collecting information
More detail about collection methods
Commonly used health questionnaires

Background on RCDI

Pilot sites
Innovative rural projects

Glossary


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Contact Details

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Acknowledgements

The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing wishes to acknowledge the efforts of the consultancy teams of Monash University School of Rural Health in creating this Guide and PricewaterhouseCoopers for contributing to the evaluation components.

The Department would also like to thank all the Rural Chronic Disease Initiative project communities, who through their enthusiasm and input made 'Building Health Communities: A Guide for Community Projects' such a success.

Acknowledgments: Helen Carr, Janice Chesters, Rob Clough, Marlene Drysdale, Susan Faulkner, Steve Kirkbright, Gordon Whyte and Di Wyatt.

Photography and CDROM development by Mr Steve Kirkbright, Monash University School of Rural Health.