Publications

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

The following report investigates the claims regarding leprosy testing on Aboriginal Children in the Northern Territory between 1920 and 1960.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

This page provides a pdf version of the evaluation design report

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

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 page includes all the attachments to the report.

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

• Tobacco

This page has information about the Department's component of the Government's response to the health related recommendations of the Bringing Them Home Report.

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

• 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 report provides estimates and projections to inform an appropriate public health response to the hepatitis C virus epidemic in Australia, both in terms of preventive measures and treatment needs.

• Communicable diseases
• Hepatitis C

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.

• Mental health
• Child health
• Autism

The Draft Guidelines prvode general information on the Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) Dementia Program, for Approved Providers, other service providers and officers of the Department of Health and Ageing.

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
• Health education

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Injury prevention

This report is an economic evaluation of programs to control the hepatitis C epidemic. The evaluation considers the impact of five programs associated with hepatitis C prevention, education and control. Some programs exclusively target hepatitis C while others focus on other blood borne viruses.

• Communicable diseases
• Hepatitis C

This evaluation considers the extent to which the Retractable Needle and Syringe Technology Initiative has contributed to identifying the issues, and ways of addressing these, of the use of retractable needles and syringes by injecting illicit drug users.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Needle

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

Issues paper on eligibility for community care

• Ageing
• Aged care services

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: Pamphlet

• Infant Health
• Women's health

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - Breastfeeding hints brochure

• Women's health
• Child health
• Nutrition

This evaluation report considers whether Australia has continued to make progress in implementing the objectives of the National Mental Health Strategy and the 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

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

A discussion paper prepared for the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia which discusses the value of mature age workers and the potential for economic growth that can be produced by a larger cohort of mature age workers.

• Ageing

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

This document presents the reports of several research studies which informed the preparation of advice to the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC) on achievements and progress under the National Mental Health Strategy.

• Mental health

This evaluation considers the effectiveness and appropriateness of the National Mental Health Strategy since its inception in 1992. It draws evidence from a number of sources and points to five 'overarching' observations.

• 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