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Health is a precious resource that helps create productive, satisfying lives and economic security for the state2.
Prevention of chronic disease is everyone’s business. The potential benefits are great and include3:
There is good evidence that many chronic diseases can be prevented from occurring in the first place or from progressing to become a complex problem requiring expensive and intensive medical care4.
The Queensland Strategy for Chronic Disease 2005-2015 identifies four risk factors for action under the strategy:
Combined, these risk factors account for almost a quarter of the burden of disease and injury in Queensland.5 Emotional and social wellbeing is also a factor in relation to chronic disease with considerations for mental health promotion and the prevention of mental ill health.
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