This document focuses on the evidence base behind the NT Preventable Chronic Diseases Strategy. It should be read in conjunction with the Ministerial Statement delivered by Hon. Stephen Dunham MLA, Minister for Health, Family and Children’s
Services, in the August 1999 sitting of the NT Legislative Assembly. The evidence is drawn from a collective review of the national and international literature over a three year period. The literature was collected specifically for the purpose of informing strategy development, and during the course of a series of projects and ongoing activities relating to chronic disease in the NT.