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This report highlights some of the innovative ways that Australian clinicians, service providers and funding bodies have sought to overcome the significant challenges of providing effective and collaborative support to adults with a severe and persistent mental illness.

• Mental health

This strategy is the first national strategy on this disease to be adopted in Australia. It is also one of a suite of five strategies aiming to reduce the transmission of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs), and the morbidity, mortality and personal and social impacts they cause.

• Communicable diseases

This report focuses on the reproductive health of women from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH).

This document sets an agenda for collaborative government action in mental health for five years from 2009, offers a framework to develop a system of care that is able to intervene early and provide integrated services across health and social domains, and provides guidance to governments in considering future funding priorities for mental health.

• Mental health

This page contains a printable PDF version of the Family Centred Primary Health Care report

This literature review has been prepared by Biotext Pty Ltd for the National Health and Medical Research Council. The aim was to identify risk factors for eye disease and injury, and the measures that the general public can take to prevent or reduce the risk of eye disease and injury. This report examines the evidence relating to the validity of risk or causal factors for eye disease and injury such as tobacco, alcohol, nutrition, infections, age or ageing, ultraviolet (UV) damage, injury and medication side effects.

• Eye health
• Aged care services
• Ageing

Snapshot of our public hospitals Australia-wide during 2005-06.

• Hospitals

Questions commonly asked by providers under the Australian Government Hearing Services Program regarding various claiming issues.

This report sets out the key outcomes of the forum, including settings and population groups considered high priorities to be progressed until June 2006.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

• Nutrition

In the opinion of the Far West Area Health Service, the evaluation report represents a fair and comprehensive assessment of the Integrated Mental Health Project.

• Mental health

This document is the final evaluation report of the Far West Mental Health Integration Project (MHIP) addressing key issues on the Commonwealth policy agenda and state concerns.

• Mental health

A national review of falls prevention programs aimed at reducing falls and falls related injuries among older Australians.

• Research and development
• Aged care services
• Injury prevention

The Plan provides a strategic framework for the detection and management of an influenza pandemic in Australia. It provides a national framework and direction for the development of plans at the State/Territory and local level. This is the fourth report in the Communicable Diseases Intelligence Technical Report series.

• Communicable diseases

Competitive tendering will continue to be introduced where it can deliver benefits. Even so, for the department, continued benefits are more likely to come from better management approaches under current funding arrangements, with the aim of improving the cost effectiveness and customer focus of services, and ensuring more rigorous monitoring and evaluation.

The report identifies gaps in knowledge of foodborne disease and assesses the current trends in epidemiology, leading to recommendations to reduce foodborne disease on a national basis. The report encourages a multi-sector approach to the prevention, surveillance and control of foodborne diseases. This is the second report in the Communicable Diseases Intelligence Technical Report series.

• Communicable diseases

This report examines the likely and recommended future directions for the treatment of alcohol problems and problems related to unsanctioned drug use, especially injecting drug use, in Australia.

• Alcohol
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs