The Victorian Government monitors food, nutrition and related health data to help plan and decide on policies and interventions.
Evidence and data also assist in understanding how effective our actions are across the state to promote healthy eating, and healthier food environments.
The following reports provide key evidence and data on food, nutrition and health in Victoria.
- Victorian Population Health Surveys
- Challenges to healthy eating: food insecurity in Victoria - findings from the 2014 Victorian Population Health Survey
- Your health: report of the chief health officer, Victoria (the 2014 edition includes a focus on nutrition)
- Victorian Healthy Food Basket Survey: conducted by various local governments and agencies, for example, the Central Hume catchment
- VicHealth community indicators survey (community wellbeing survey)
- VicHealth coronavirus Victorian wellbeing impact study
- Victorian Child and Adolescent Monitoring System
- Victorian child health and wellbeing surveys
- Victorian student health and wellbeing survey (known as the About You survey)
Data on food intake, nutrition and health is also available in the following National reports and surveys. Many of these provide specific information on Victorians.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS):
- National Health Surveys
- Australian Health Survey: Nutrition first results - foods and nutrients (the most detailed dietary intake data currently available. A repeat survey is planned for 2023
- Apparent consumption of selected foodstuffs, Australia (provides estimates of apparent consumption per capita of selected foods based on product sales in Australia, annually).
- Apparent consumption of alcohol, Australia (provides annual volume of alcohol available for consumption by types of alcoholic beverage)
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare:
- Australia’s health 2020
- Australia’s food and nutrition 2012
- Nutrition across the life stages 2018
- Australian burden of disease Study 2018
Cancer Council (VIC and WA) as part of LiveLighter campaign
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