We are committed to promoting and protecting the health and wellbeing of everyone in our community, with a focus on those who need it most. We are also committed to empowering individuals and our community to make healthy choices and improve overall quality of life. The circumstances and places in which we are born, live, work and age affect our health, and we aim to address these factors to achieve fair and better health outcomes for everyone in our community.
In seeking to address our health priorities, Council will prioritise action towards those most likely to experience inequities in health and wellbeing. These population groups include:
- First Peoples
- multicultural communities
- LGBTQIA+ communities
- people with disability (including chronic and mental ill-health conditions)
- carers
- socially isolated people
- financially vulnerable people (including people living on low incomes and people who are homeless or living in social housing)
- women
- men over 35 years
- children and young people
- older people.
Further information about each of these population groups can be found on Council’s Population groups webpage.
Council also recognises that every person has multiple and intersecting identities, needs and experiences that affect their health and wellbeing.
Our health priorities
Overall, the Boroondara community reports good health and quality of life.
However, we identified 6 health priorities for Council to focus on. These came from research and consultation completed to develop the Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025–29.
The Health Priority Action Plan outlines how we will implement these health priorities.
*Department of Health (2023) Victorian public health and wellbeing plan 2023–27, Department of Health, accessed 5 July 2025.