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1 - 7 november 2017
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ENCOURAGING HEALTH: Gateway Health’s Monique Hillenaar and Felicity Kennedy, are passionate about creating a more healthy culture in North East workplaces. PHOTO: Kylie Wilson
by KYLIE WILSON WE spend a large percentage of our lives at work, but it can also be where many of our plans for a healthy lifestyle can be derailed. From the food in the tearoom, to sources of stress and demanding workloads that can cause you to skip lunch, there are many things that can interfere with maintaining your health and wellbeing. For the past few years, workers at Gateway Health, other regional health providers and North East business have been attempting to address that issue through the Achievement Program, in the hopes of changing workplace cultures in the North East for the better. Established in conjunction with the Victorian Government and Cancer Council Victoria, the program supports, and provides a framework for, the development of healthy workplaces. About 1000 workplaces statewide take part in the program, and around 30 of those are in the North East. Felicity Kennedy, a health promotion coordinator from Gateway Health who has been working on the project for about two years, said approaches to creating healthier workplaces have to encompass the whole business.
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