Generation Queensland (GenQ) is our vision that children born today experience better health outcomes than the generations of Queenslanders before them.
In 2022, Health and Wellbeing Queensland commissioned Australian-first research that showed children born this decade may live a shorter life than their parents due to obesity.
While the life expectancy for children in the general population could drop by up to 4.1 years, First Nations children could lose up to 5.1 years, potentially widening the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Queenslanders.
We are working with government, sectors and community to ensure better health for the kids of tomorrow by shifting the systems that are not supportive of a healthy weight.
Working together across
Sector
Sector
Community
Community
Government
Government
Health and Wellbeing Queensland has worked with stakeholders and funded research to guide the development of 5 strategic priorities that will be key to ensuring better health outcomes for all Queenslanders, including the kids of tomorrow.
The package includes 3 major government strategies being delivered across government and in partnership with many stakeholders to be able to reach all parts of Queensland. These important pieces of work include:
Making Healthy
Happen 2032
Queensland’s implementation response to the National Obesity Strategy, designed to support all Queenslanders to maintain a healthy weight.
This comprehensive and forward-thinking Strategy acknowledges the complexity of the challenges and demonstrates dedicated action to:
- Make system changes to better support all Queenslanders to maintain a healthy weight, prevent further weight gain or reduce weight.
- Develop strategies to create healthy environments and empower people to stay as healthy as they can be.
- Better embed prevention, early intervention and treatment into our healthcare system.
- Change the narrative around obesity to reduce weight stigma.
Gather + Grow
2023-2032
A strategy for improving food security in remote First Nations communities in Queensland.
Gather + Grow 2023-2032 outlines a whole-of-system approach to improve food security across four community-identified priority areas:
- optimising supply chain performance, resilience and logistics to ensure quality, affordable, healthy food is consistently available year-round
- improving the accessibility and availability of healthy food by creating supportive settings for sustainable local food production
- empowering communities to choose and prepare healthy food by building awareness, capability and environments for good nutrition
- supporting healthy homes that enable the use of healthy food with reliable and functional facilities and equipment (for example, working fridges and cooktops).
Thriving Lives,
Connected Communities
The Queensland Government’s commitment to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all Queenslanders.
This Commitment takes a deliberate wellbeing approach to build the foundations for good mental health and is the first step in the Government’s commitment to developing a population-wide, mental health and wellbeing strategy and action plan. It builds on the Queensland Government’s existing mental health and wellbeing investment and sets the direction for new action and investment across three focus areas of Collective, Community and Individual Wellbeing.
Thriving Lives, Connected Communities was developed by Health and Wellbeing Queensland in partnership with the Queensland Mental Health Commission.
Equity Framework
in Queensland
Applying an equity lens helps identify the root causes of unfairness, so we can drive change, and make fair happen. The Equity Framework shows how to apply this lens to make equity happen for Queensland and Queenslanders.
The Equity Framework provides a proactive equity approach in Queensland that will help us to:
- Understand differently and recognise the dynamics and root causes of inequality
- Intervene differently to tackle root causes, act at multiple change levels and bring action together
- Work differently across sectors and systems, build relationships and embed the voice of lived experience
Clinical Prevention
Framework
A framework focused on a coordinated approach to prevention, bridging the gap between health promotion and the treatment of disease.
Health and Wellbeing Queensland is leading a new Clinical Prevention agenda to take pressure off the health system. Clinical Prevention describes a systems approach to improve the coordination of prevention, timely identification and early intervention of chronic disease. This will include development of a Queensland Clinical Prevention Framework designed to support prevention efforts across the health system.
To learn about what innovative models of care Health and Wellbeing Queensland is funding visit our programs, Logan Healthy Living Program and Wellness my Way.
GenQ vision is supported by a suite of specific actions that will enable easier delivery of the above strategies and help bring together various parts of the preventative health system.
Population Data Platform
Providing insights about health and wellbeing outcomes and drivers.
Grants Scheme
Generating evidence-based and innovative ideas to improve population health and wellbeing.
Community Insights Panel
Capturing the lived experience of Queenslanders to help shape policies and programs.
Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation
Conducting innovative and high impact transdisciplinary research.
References
1. Impact of Obesity on Life Expectancy in Queensland, October 2022, Report 1.
2. Based on Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU), Torrens University Australia material from: Social Health Atlas of Australia: Local Government Areas (online) 2018. Accessed 18 January 2022 [/socialhealthatlases/data#social-health-atlas-of-australia-local-government-areas].
3. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Overweight and obesity: an interactive insight.
Last updated 2 January 2025
