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Better Health Channel
Better Health Channel
(BHC) website promotes health literacy and healthy living by providing health consumers with trusted, reliable and easy to understand health and medical information, quality assured by the Department of Health, Victoria.
The website content is developed by health experts across government and the health sector, and quality reviewed to provide users with confidence when making health decisions. It does not however replace care provided by medical practitioners and other qualified health professionals.
Mission and vision
To provide health and medical information to improve the health and wellbeing of people and the communities they live in.
How Better Health Channel can help
Better Health Channel has a range of tools, videos and fact sheets designed to help you discover options for support, locate services that meet your needs, and provides tips for making decisions at the different stages of your health journey.