Publications

• Health Reform
• Aged care services
• Seniors

Resources to assist GPs and their practices to manage lifestyle-related risk factors.

• General practice
• Health promotion
• Nutrition
• Obesity
• Physical activity
• Chronic disease
• Alcohol
• Tobacco

The Department of Health and Ageing's Regulatory Plan for 2009-10

Manual to assist general practice to use Lifescripts as a tool for lifestyle interventions as part of routine clinical practice.

• General practice
• Health promotion

A review of research relating to graphic health warnings.

• Tobacco

A national approach to closing the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians should ensure that all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have access to a basic suite of comprehensive primary health care services (including for chronic disease and for maternal and child health) regardless of funding streams or administrative responsibility for the health service.

The Department of Health and Ageing's Regulatory Plan for 2008-09

A set of plain language fact sheets arranged around topic areas that summarise the key issues in suicide prevention and suggest further sources of information and help.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

The revised Living is For Everyone (LiFE) framework provides updated information to mental health professionals and the wider community to enhance the understanding and prevention of suicide and self harm in Australia.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

This report sets the context for suicide prevention activity, summarising current research, evidence and statistics relating to suicide and suicide prevention in Australia.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

To support the project for the evaluation of the impact of accreditation on the delivery of quality of care and quality of life to residents in Australian Government subsidised residential aged care homes

• Aged care services
• Ageing

Are you concerned that someone close to you is considering taking their own life? Would you like to know how to help keep them safe?

• Suicide prevention
• Mental health

This manual assists general practices to integrate lifestyle interventions into routine practice to prevent chronic disease and promote health and wellbeing.

• Health promotion

Commonwealth legislation that establishes the regulatory framework for pathology services provided under Medicare.

• Legislation
• Medicare
• Pathology

A review of the feasibility, cost effectiveness and public health benefits of registration and licensing schemes for tobacco outlets in Australia.

• Tobacco

The purpose of these guidelines is to allow the necessary on-site testing for other possible causes of the illness, and other testing required for the immediate and ongoing management of the patient.

• Communicable diseases

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. This publication describes the many programs, organisations and governments with an interest in, or a potential overlap with, suicide prevention activities.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. This publication describes the many programs, organisations and governments with an interest in, or a potential overlap with, suicide prevention activities.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. This publication sets the context for suicide prevention activity and provides a profile of the incidence of suicide and the current knowledge of risk and protective factors across different age, population and identified at risk groups.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. This publication sets the context for suicide prevention activity and provides a profile of the incidence of suicide and the current knowledge of risk and protective factors across different age, population and identified at risk groups.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. This publication outlines the LIFE framework and presents six action areas for promoting mental health and preventing mental illness.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. This publication outlines the LIFE framework and presents six action areas for promoting mental health and preventing mental illness.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

This report provides guidelines, information and resources to update mental health education and training to meet consumer and carer need as well as the benchmarks on quality and effectiveness provided by the Second Mental Health Plan.

• Mental health

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - Educational comic providing information on breastfeeding.

• Nutrition
• Child health
• Women's health

This discussion paper addresses issues surrounding the development of functional specifications for clinical information system design in mental health services and provides a statement of the minimum requirements of the National Mental Health Minimum Data Set. It also guides information system developers and mental health administrators who are developing or reviewing local-area clinical information systems.

• Mental health

This paper is concerned with the legislative options available for cannabis, and the impact of those options on the community at large and on the law enforcement sector.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs