Health in All Policies: evaluating the South Australian approach to intersectoral action for health.

Objectives: Health in All Policies (HiAP) has been promoted as a means of embedding concern for health impacts in the policy-making process. In South Australia, specific structures and processes to achieve this have been developed and tested.

Participants: The HiAP approach is designed to engage policy officers and managers in all sectors of government.

Building an evidence base for community health: a review of the quality of program evaluations.

An assessment of the quality of program evaluations conducted in South Australian community health services investigated how effective evaluation reporting is in producing an evidence base for community health. Evaluation reports were assessed by a team of reviewers. Practitioner workshops allowed an understanding of the uses of evaluation and what promotes or acts as a barrier to undertaking evaluations.