Publications

This publication aims to ensure that consumers, carers, support persons, service providers and the community are aware of relevant rights and responsibilities and can be confident in exercising them.

• Mental health

This report was completed by Paxton Partners Pty Ltd, June 2011, and examines the use of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) as a fee schedule for medical services by States and Territories.

This research assessed a variety of models of collaborative care to deduce principles upon which collaborative care should be based and strategies to achieve these goals.

• Youth health
• Mental health
• Child health

The fourteenth annual report of the Medical Training Review Panel (MTRP).

• Annual reports
• Health care systems
• Health personnel
• Health workforce

This evaluation assessed the overall appropriateness, effectiveness and impact of the Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas (MHSRRA) program.

• Mental health
• Rural health services

This document reports on services under the Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program in Longford, Clare, Bathurst, Geelong, Ipswich, Mackay and Ballarat.

• Mental health
• Nursing

This case study project investigated seven different sites where the Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program (MHNIP) has been implemented, covering a variety of locations, service models and employment arrangements. The case studies were intended to highlight the development, implementation and some early outcomes of the MHNIP.

• Mental health
• Nursing

The Development of a Quality Framework for the Medicare Benefits Schedule – Discussion Paper was released on 29 April 2010.

• Medicare

The following pages contain the latest revision of the Manual of Resource Items and their Associated Costs for use in major submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee involving economic analyses (Version 4) December 2009

• Pharmaceutical benefits

This report presents a comprehensive summary of the results of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. It provides information on the prevalence of mental disorders, their severity, associated suicidality, and comorbidity with other mental disorders and physical conditions, as well as what services people use for their mental health problems.

• Mental health

The thirteenth annual report of the Medical Training Review Panel (MTRP).

• Health workforce

This discussion paper proposes that the formal qualifications and experience required to become an APP will vary according to the category of laboratory that an APP proposes to work in and the scope of testing that they will be performing.

OATSIH has commissioned the development of a set of resources for primary health care providers outlining the latest evidence on the treatment of middle ear infection in this high-risk population, including Recommendations for Clinical Care Guidelines on the Management of Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations.

Medicare statistics for the March Quarter 2007 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Medicare statisitcs for the September Quarter 2007 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Medicare statisitcs for the June Quarter 2007 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Medicare statisitcs for the December Quarter 2006 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Medicare statisitcs for the September Quarter 2006 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

As part of the National Continence Management Strategy, Hawthorne (2006c) reviewed patient satisfaction measures and recommended (a) investigation into a single patient satisfaction item for use by clinicians wishing to make an “on-the-spot” assessment, (b) that a short incontinence specific measure be developed based on revisions to the GUTSS instrument, and (c) that a short generic instrument be developed. This study implements these recommendations through the evaluation of various patient satisfaction instruments to determine their suitability for inclusion in the NCMS suite of measures.

• Aged care services
• Ageing
• Seniors

Statistical data related to Medicare for the June Quarter 2006 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Multilingual translations of Ageing and Aged Care Division publications into community languages.

• Ageing
• Aged care services

This written asthma action plan will help you to manage your asthma.

• Asthma
• Chronic disease

Statistical data related to Medicare for the June Quarter 2005 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Statistical data related to Medicare for the December Quarter 2005 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Statistical data related to Medicare for the March Quarter 2006 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

This document consists of a set of fact sheets about mentoring nurses in general practice.

• General practice
• Nursing

Statistical data related to Medicare for the March Quarter 2005 together with data for earlier quarters and financial years.

• Medicare
• Statistics

Smoking chop-chop has the potential to induce illness and possible fatality in those who use it.

• Tobacco

This monograph documents the prevalence and risks associated with psychostimulant use, describes the pharmacology of psychostimulants, and identifies best practice in detoxification and clinical interventions for psychostimulant use.

• Drugs and substance abuse

This monograph documents the prevalence and risks associated with psychostimulant use, describes the pharmacology of psychostimulants, and identifies best practice in detoxification and clinical interventions for psychostimulant use.

• Drugs and substance abuse

This manual helps projects funded under the LIFE framework to identify indicators and measures that could be used to evaluate their activities.

• Suicide prevention
• Mental health

This document reports on the extent of drug use among traffic detainees, the characteristics of these detainees, potential legislative approaches to drug driving, and options for monitoring and research.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

Results of the fourth national census of clients of treatment service agencies (COTSA). This report identifies the characteristics of clients attending drug and alcohol treatment services and compares the drug and alcohol problems being treated over the eleven years since the first census.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

Many people with drug or alcohol problems also experience a range of other psychiatric and psychological problems. This document provides updated information on screening and diagnostic instruments that may be used to assess comorbidity.

• Alcohol
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Mental health

The report of a national study to align national mental health expenditure with need for services at the local government area level.

• Mental health

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. This report, commissioned by the AHMAC Working Party to research issues relevant to specialist medical training outside teaching hospitals, presents for discussion issues surrounding the increasingly limited opportunities for specialist training in teaching hospitals.

This report presents estimates of the costs of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs for the financial year 1998-99. It is the third report in a series of estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Tobacco
• Alcohol

The Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia, sponsored by the Department of Health and Aged Care, uses accessibility by road to services to develop a standard classification and index of remoteness.This revised edition was released in October 2001.

• Rural health services

This report describes the results of the sixth national survey on the use of alcohol by secondary students. This includes the prevalence of alcohol use in 1999, changes in use between 1996 and 1999, and changes in prevalence of current and hazardous drinking between 1984 and 1999.

• Alcohol
• Youth health

This report describes the results of the second national survey on the use of over-the-counter and illicit substances by secondary students. This includes the use of specific substances such as analgesics & cannabis, poly-substance use, comparisons of types of substances used, and changes in use between 1996 and 1999.

• Illegal drugs
• Prescribed drugs
• Youth health
• Drugs and substance abuse

This monograph reviews the literature on the health and psychological effects of cannabis. This includes a description of cannabis as a drug, patterns of use, acute effects, adverse health and psychological effects of chronic use, possible consequenses of adolescent use, therapeutic benefits, and adverse effects when used with alcohol and tobacco.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report represents the findings of the child and adolescent component of the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. It provides the first reliable, national information on mental illness in children and adolescents aged 4 to 17.

• Child health
• Youth health
• Mental health

This report summarises the role of the Australian police in alcohol and drug diversion processes, identifies the barriers to the use of discretion by police officers, and provides a set of recommendations to address those barriers.

• Alcohol
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. One in five Australians will experience a mental illness. This guide states the facts about mental illness and how myths and misunderstandings surrounding mental illness can be discouraged.

• Mental health
• Public awareness

This research assessed whether street-level drug law enforcement encourages heroin users into methadone treatment and the extent to which it promotes unsafe injection practices.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report outlines a national strategic approach to education and training programs for police to promote best practice in the reduction of alcohol and other drug related harm.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This publication provides an overall picture of quality in Australian mental health services.

• Mental health

This summary presents the key messages of the main report, and highlights opportunities for improving the mental health of Australians, particularly in relation to depression.

• Mental health

This study considers how the social impact of being apprehended for a minor cannabis offence differs between a strict prohibition model with criminal penalties (Western Australia) and a civil penalties model (South Australia).

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - This module addresses quality care issues specific to maternal care services and infant care services for infants up to 12 months of age.

• Nutrition
• Child health
• Women's health

This document presents the national priorities and strategies for developing mental health information over the next five years. It outlines a proposed work program agreed to by the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments.

• Mental health

This study assesses police and other criminal justice attitudes toward the Cannabis Expiation Notice (CEN) system and documents their experience in putting it into effect.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This study compares the social impacts of two main models found in Australia for dealing with minor cannabis offences: total prohibition, and prohibition with civil penalties. In addition, it evaluates the operation and acceptability of an existing expiation scheme for minor cannabis offences, South Australia's Cannabis Expiation Notice (CEN) scheme.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

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

An expert workshop in January 1999 drew together a series of expert papers revising the international and national literature in respect to methadone tolerance in relation to safe initiation into methadone treatment and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in clinical practice. The evidence presented formed the basis for several policy, clinical and research recommendations for induction onto methadone maintenance.

• Drugs
• Illegal drugs
• Prescribed drugs

This paper examines data on minor cannabis offences in South Australia for the period 1991 to 1997. The main focus is on data from the South Australian Police Department relating to the operation of the Cannabis Expiation Notice (CEN) scheme.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This document analyses how much the Australian population is affected by mental disorders and considers the practical implications of these findings.

• Mental health

This report provides a detailed profile on depression, outlines prevention and management issues, and highlights opportunities and future directions to address depression. It is part of a series of National Health Priority Areas reports.

• Mental health

This report describes the results of the first national survey on the use of over-the-counter and illicit substances by secondary students in Australia.

• Drugs
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Prescribed drugs
• Youth health

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - Maternal and infant care services module notes and examples of current accepted practice.

• Child health
• Women's health

This report reviews and analyses the literature on psychostimulant use, associated harms and responses; identifies good practice in response to psychostimulant harm; and prioritises future initiatives for the treatment of psychostimulant use.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report reviews and analyses the literature on psychostimulant use, associated harms and responses; identifies good practice in response to psychostimulant harm; and prioritises future initiatives for the treatment of psychostimulant use.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This project addresses two key objectives of the first National Mental Health Strategy relating to outcomes assessment - to undertake regular reviews of outcomes of mental health services, and to encourage the development of national outcome standards for mental health services.

• Mental health

This report is based on data from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey Series. It provides information on patterns of drug use; the characteristics of users, including use by adolescents and an analysis of users by state; national perspectives; and general attitudes towards marijuana.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report is based on data from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey Series. It provides information on patterns of drug use; the characteristics of users, including use by adolescents and an analysis of users by state; national perspectives; and general attitudes towards marijuana.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report is the second major study estimating the social costs of drug abuse in Australia. The drugs analysed are alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs (including cannabis, opiates, amphetamines, cocaine and hallucinogens).

• Drugs
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This monograph investigates what the public believe the health risks of marijuana use to be, how they evaluate these risks in comparison with those of other drugs, and how personal characteristics are related to these beliefs.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Public awareness

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

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

This publication aims to ensure that consumers, carers, advocates, service providers and the community are aware of their rights and responsibilities and can be confident in exercising them.

• 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 monograph documents the first phase of a project to design and evaluate a drink driving education intervention, Plan A Safe Strategy (PASS), for high school students.

• Alcohol
• Youth health

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