Publications

This report assesses the effectiveness and appropriateness of the program and its current operational parameters as well as modelling future demand and growth patterns. It addresses patient outcomes, program uptake, program demand, cost benefits, program structure and compliance.

• Mental health
• Nursing

This strategy sets out a long term vision for developing an accessible, high quality and integrated e-mental health care system.

• Mental health

This report assesses the implementation of the Mobile Outreach Service projects model and its impact on, and outcomes for, Aboriginal children and young people and their families and communities.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

This report identifies the essential elements of early psychosis intervention services and makes recommendations to provide an effective national system of early psychosis care.

• Mental health

This comprehensive evaluation assessed the overall appropriateness, effectiveness and impact of the Better Access initiative.

• Suicide prevention
• Mental health

This manual is designed as a field reference for Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) engaging with and working in remote Indigenous communities.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Environmental health

This report evaluates the administration of the National External Breast Prostheses Reimbursement Program in its first year of operation, and the impact of the program on the lives of women who have had a mastectomy as a result of breast cancer.

• Cancer
• Chronic disease

An evaluation to determine the extent to which the day to day living program contributed to improving the social and health outcomes of participants, and to inform the future of the program.

• Mental health

The evaluation highlights the impact that swimming pools have on the health of Indigenous children in remote communities in the APY lands.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Detailed findings of the 2008 evaluation of the graphic health warnings on tobacco products.

• Tobacco

Summary of findings of the 2008 evaluation of the graphic health warnings on tobacco products.

• Tobacco

This report evaluates the effectiveness of the Public Access Defibrillation Demonstration project, identifies issues that arose during the trial, and considers lessons which may be relevant to future considerations of public access defibrillation.

• Cardiovascular diseases
• Chronic disease

This report is the first progress report by jurisdictions to the Australian Health Ministers' Conference on progress to date in implementing the National Framework for Action to Promote Eye Health and Prevent Avoidable Blindness. It covers the period from the release of the Framework by Health Ministers in November 2005 to July 2008. The report has been compiled by the Eye Health Working Group of the Australian Population Health Development Principal Committee of the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC).

• Aged care services
• Ageing

This report Effective Caring : a synthesis of the international evidence on carer needs and interventions - aims to identify the needs of carers including the factors that sustain carers in their caring role, identify interventions and to develop a research agenda. The report is based on the Centre for Health Service Development, University of Wollongong, 2007 review of Australian and international academic and practice literature, together with a concurrent analysis of policy and practice in Australia.

Final report of the project to 'evaluate the impact of accreditation on the delivery of quality of care and quality of life to residents in aged care homes'

• Aged care services
• Ageing

An overview of mental health services for children and adolescents, and of services to support their families.

• Child health
• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

The Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992 limits the exposure of the public to messages and images that may persuade them to start or continue smoking.

• Tobacco

A report prepared for the department by La Trobe University in 2005

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

An evaluation of Link Up, Bringing Them Home Counsellors, Social and Emotional Well Being Regional Centres and Mental Health Service Delivery Projects.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

This report is a literature review which summarises research and evaluations of Indigenous community programs in nutrition, early childhood, housing, sporting and cultural programs, employment, community services and alcohol use.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Environmental health

This report informed implementation of the July 2006 Council of Australian Governments' initiative for Better Specialist Training. It proposed a modest and gradual expansion of training settings for medical specialist training.

• Health workforce

This report provides a summary of the achievements of the National Continence Management Strategy since inception in 1998 to June 2006 and provides recommendations to assist with planning for future phases.

• Continence

This brochure summarises research findings on early intervention for autism, outlines the kinds of programs available in Australia, provides guidelines for best practice in early intervention, and lists contacts for programs across Australia.

• Autism
• Child health
• Mental health

This evaluation considers whether general practice training is being delivered to the right people, whether it is of a high standard, and whether the current training arrangements provide optimal benefit to the Australian community.

• General practice

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Injury prevention

Mid-term evaluation of the Retractable Needle and Syringe Technology Initiative.

• Drugs and substance abuse

An evaluation of the Additional Practice Nurses in Rural Australia and Other Areas of Need budget measure (known as the Nursing in General Practice initiative).

• General practice
• Nursing

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - Breastfeeding hints brochure

• Women's health
• Child health
• Nutrition

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: Pamphlet

• Infant Health
• Women's health

This 2003 evaluation report considered whether Australia had continued to make progress in implementing the objectives of the National Mental Health Strategy, including three additional priority themes identified in the Second National Mental Health Plan.

• Mental health

In a society where emphasis is placed on employment as a means of social inclusion, it is imperative that people with psychiatric disabilities are given an opportunity to participate in the labour market. This report draws on information from the Collaborative Study on Low-Prevalence (Psychotic) Disorders to make 20 recommendations for how access to employment can be improved.

• Mental health

A review of existing Australian research on community attitudes and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, with recommendations on strategies for effectively eliminating or reducing community exposure.

• Tobacco

As the third paper in the Information Strategy Committee discussion paper series, this report addresses the important emerging area of electronic mental health and aims to generate discussion about these developments as well as highlighting possible strategic areas for action by governments and other interested parties.

• Mental health

An assessment of access to and use of electronic resources on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and other blood borne viruses

• Communicable diseases
• Hepatitis C
• HIV & AIDS

This booklet is a practical guide to designing and implementing evaluation for a wide range of promotion and prevention initiatives. It outlines how people can work with each other, their stakeholders, clients and community to develop relevant, affordable and achievable evaluations for their initiatives. It also demonstrates how these evaluation processes can become part of day-to-day practice.

• Mental health

This study investigated whether the 1987 Cannabis Expiation Notice (CEN) scheme in South Australia had produced a greater increase in the prevalence of lifetime and weekly cannabis use in South Australia than in the rest of Australia.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report of the epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus summarises the state of knowledge to the end of 1998. The report is based upon extensive literature reviews and the compilation of a research register that identifies Australian studies. This is the third report in the Communicable Diseases Intelligence Technical Report series.

• Communicable diseases

List of Publications on environmental health currently distributed by the Office of Health Protection of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

• Environmental health

This evaluation, finalised in 1997, considered the effectiveness and appropriateness of the National Mental Health Strategy from its inception in 1992.

• Mental health

This monograph is a review of the literature evaluating drug and alcohol treatment programs. It provides a frame for viewing the issues of importance in evaluation in this field and, in particular, the evaluation of treatment programs in Australia.

• Alcohol
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report provides a broad overview of the treatment of drug and alcohol problems, including summaries of the effectiveness of broadly-defined treatment approaches and of the relative effectiveness of specific treatment methods for specific problems.

• Alcohol
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs