Community Health

Recently it was the Heart Foundation's Heart Week, focused on knowing your CVD Risk and keeping up with your Heart Health Checks.

In our May Community Health Newsletter edition, see here, we interviewed one the SHDH Dietitian's about the latest on food and nutrition for a healthy heart! We also have details on the Heart Foundation's FREE personal walking plans, designed to make it easier for you to start and stay moving.

We celebrate our team of eight Dietitian's in Dietitians Week!

Learn more about our Eat a Rainbow Sessions at our local early childhood centres, the Health Promotion team is visiting this term and our new Giggles, Wiggles & Words Project, launched in SHDH waiting rooms across our service!

Read our latest newsletter from Community Health - April 2026, full of school holiday activities, service updates and tips for health and wellbeing.

Are you looking for a fun, free school holiday activity the whole family can enjoy?

Join us at the Fun for Little Gardeners Activity on Wednesday 15th April from 10am to 12noon at George Lay Park.

Balance the Scales is a promise that every woman and girl – regardless of background or identity – should be safe, heard, and free to shape their own lives. Yet in 2026, too many across Australia and the world are still denied that fair go. Discriminatory laws, policies, and practices persist. Gender-based violence remains widespread, and structural barriers block too many from seeking or receiving justice.

This International Women’s Day let's Balance the Scales together and focus on health. Preventative care is foundational to women’s safety and wellbeing, and health screening supports fairness and equal access to care. Learn more about age related health checks and local services in our Women’s Health Check Guide and women's health services here.

Go to https;//www.shdh.org.au/women’s health

We’ve missed you! Eat Move Smile is back with fresh ideas to help the Swan Hill community eat well, move more, and smile together. Read our first newsletter for the new year here. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for Eat Move Smile tips and updates!

Read our November newsletter regarding recent activities and upcoming events here. Join us in actions to promote the 16 Days of Activism to prevent gender-based violence.

We are very excited to announce our new Nurse Practitioner Clinic at Community Health. Read all the details along with some fun school holiday activities and upcoming events in our latest newsletter.

See here: https://www.shdh.org.au/community-health-newsletter-march-2024/

Meet our Sexual & Reproductive Health Team, Maureen, Hollie and Amy, learn more about their experience and roles in the March Newsletter.

Read our latest newsletter here.

Check out our upcoming sessions for little ones, called Nourishing Little Minds! Held in partnership with Swan Hill Regional Library, these Dietitian lead activities are great fun for families with young children, promoting healthy eating in a positive and hands on manner.

Our local Swan Hill District Gender Equity Network is providing a range of actions within the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence campaign.

To highlight the importance of these actions, see the following data.

If you would like to hear more about the Swan Hill District Gender Equity Network or actions to promote gender equity locally, just give us a call at Health Promotion on 03 5033 9337.