Category: Health Promotion

Being Equal: Gender Equality and Respect in Early Learning Services

  In 2018 the Health Promotion Team at Star Health identified a gap in the provision of support for early learning services to take a whole-of-service approach to promoting gender equity and respect. In response, Star Health partnered with five early childhood services across Port Phillip and Stonnington, to pilot the initiative Being Equal: a two-year, whole-of-service approach to ensuring children attending early childhood...

Star Health commits to Gender Equality and Respect

MEDIA RELEASE- 18/06/2020 At Star Health we commit to ensuring that people of all genders deserve equal rights, voice, opportunities, dignity, fairness, equity and to feel safe, valued and respected in their workplace and community.  Kent Burgess, CEO of Star Health stated that as a workplace and health service Star Health has an important role to play in promoting gender equality and…

Be Medicinewise Week 2017 – What You Need to Know

As we find ourselves in the thick of Australia’s seventh Be Medicinewise Week, it’s time that we sit down and discuss what this annual event is looking to achieve. A week-long event starting on the 21st of August, Be Medicinewise Week aims to promote the safe use of medicines. This includes prescription, over-the-counter and complementary…