Publications

• Child health
• Infant Health
• Physical activity

Report on a national survey to assess whether there have been changes in recognition, treatment beliefs, stigmatising attitudes and other aspects of mental health literacy.

• Mental health

The AHPC, with the assistance of the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), has prepared the NatHealth Arrangements to articulate the strategic arrangements and mechanisms for the coordination of the Australian health sector in response to emergencies of national consequence.

The National Blood-borne Virus (BBV) and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) Surveillance and Monitoring Plan is a supporting document to the National Strategies for BBVs and STIs. The Plan has been developed by a steering committee under the direction of Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA). Implementation of the plan will be overseen by the National BBV and STI Surveillance Sub-Committee of CDNA. The Sub-Committee will provide advice to CDNA on the staging of the implementation of the National BBV and STI Surveillance and Monitoring Plan, and oversee the annual implementation and reporting on the Plan.

• HIV
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Sexual Health

This framework sets policy directions and identifies program goals to assist governments and administrators planning the future development of needle and syringe programs.

• Drugs and substance abuse

This report, the eleventh in the series, presents the latest data on progress made under the National Mental Health Strategy.

• Mental health

This document outlines a revised set of mental health service standards which can be applied to all mental health services, including government, non-government and private sectors across Australia.

• Mental health

The Australian Health Ministers’ Conference have endorsed five new national strategies for blood borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs).

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Communicable diseases
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• HIV
• Sexual Health

Stage two of the Government’s National Health Reform Plan

The National Health Disaster Management Capability Audit 2008 is the third national audit designed to identify pressures in the health system during a major emergency and to act on these to improve responses into the future.

• Emergency management

This document sets out major structural reforms to establish the financing and governance foundations of a National Health and Hospitals Network for Australia’s future. The Government expects that these reforms will permanently establish the Commonwealth Government as the majority funder of hospitals and place the Australian health system onto a sustainable and self-improving footing for the future.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Chronic disease
• Health promotion
• Hospitals
• Primary health care
• Rural health services
• Youth health

Annual report on the minimum data set

• Aged care services

This paper outlines why the government is developing a National Women’s Health Policy, what the government wants the policy to achieve, and gives information on the consultation process and how you can have your say.

• Women's health

This policy represents a renewed commitment to the continual improvement of Australia's mental health system.

• Mental health

This resource was developed from two (2) Falls Prevention Projects developed by Queensland Department of Health and modifying and adapting resources developed by Home and Community Care (HACC) providers, carers and their clients in Western Australia and was funded by the Department of Health and Ageing.

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program - Information Booklet

• Cancer

This page contains a report following the 2008 Workshop and Forum

The National Amphetamine-Type Stimulant Strategy 2008-2011 (the Strategy) has been developed within the existing legislative framework and focuses on prevention, supply reduction and treatment in a partnership framework.

• Drugs
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

Monograph Series No. 69 - This background paper is a companion paper to the National Amphetamine-Type Stimulant Strategy 2008-2011, and describes the goals and objectives of the Strategy and the priority areas for action. It was prepared to provide greater insight into the Strategy for researchers and other interested parties.

• Drugs
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report provides the findings of the National Evaluation of the Transition Care Program.

• Ageing
• Aged care services

The 2nd Edition of the National Hepatitis C Resource Manual aims to enhance the health outcomes of people affected or potentially affected by hepatitis C, by providing standardised, accurate and current information about hepatitis C and associated issues to a wide range of health care providers.

• Hepatitis C

These Guidelines have been developed by the Blood Borne Virus and Sexually Transmissible Infections Sub-Committee (BBVSS) of the Australian Population Health Development Principal Committee (APHDPC), to inform, support and harmonise approaches by Australia’s States and Territories to the management of people with HIV who place others at risk of HIV infection.

• Communicable diseases
• HIV
• Public awareness

This is the second Australian Government Implementation Plan against the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (NSFATSIH) 2003-2013

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Findings on the effectiveness of the campaign which ran from December 2006 to March 2007.

• Tobacco

The National Hepatitis C Testing Policy has been developed as a concise source of standardised currently available information to assist government, health professionals, industry, people living with hepatitis C, and the community in general, about matters associated with hepatitis C testing.

• Diseases and conditions
• Hepatitis C

Annual report on the minimum data set

• Aged care services

This report is the tenth in the series and presents the latest data on progress made under the National Mental Health Strategy.

• Mental health

Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Department of Health and Ageing and Diabetes Australia for The National Diabetes Services Scheme. A printable version is available via the link below the table of contents.

The Implementation Plan for the National STIs Strategy 2005-2008 has been developed to assist key stakeholders to progress and monitor activities on sexually transmissible infections across the health sector and should be read in conjunction with the strategy.

• Communicable diseases

The Implementation Plan for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy 2005-2008 has been developed to assist key stakeholders to progress and monitor activities on HIV/AIDS across the health sector and should be read in conjunction with the strategy.

The Implementation Plan for the National Hepatitis C Strategy 2005-2008 has been developed to assist key stakeholders to progress and monitor activities on hepatitis C across the health sector and should be read in conjunction with the strategy.

• Communicable diseases
• Diseases and conditions

The Implementation Plan for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005-2008 has been developed to assist key stakeholders to progress and monitor activities on HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and sexually transmissible infections across the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and should be read in conjunction with the strategy.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Communicable diseases

Identifies aspects of care where Australia might most usefully invest to reduce the impact of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.

• Arthritis
• Chronic disease

Identifies aspects of care where Australia might most usefully invest to reduce the impact of diabetes.

• Chronic disease
• Diabetes

Identifies aspects of care where Australia might most usefully invest to reduce the impact of cancer.

• Cancer
• Chronic disease

Identifies aspects of care where Australia might most usefully invest to reduce the impact of asthma.

• Asthma
• Chronic disease

Identifies aspects of care where Australia might most usefully invest to reduce the impact of heart, stroke and vascular disease.

• Cardiovascular diseases
• Chronic disease

Provides an overarching framework of national direction for improving chronic disease prevention and care across Australia.

• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Chronic disease
• Diabetes

Annual report on the minimum data set

• Aged care services

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

This is the ninth report in a series that has monitored the progress in mental health reform under the National Mental Health Strategy from 1993 to 2003.

• Mental health

Report of the stakeholder workshop to discuss the priorities and opportunities for training and support for nursing in general practice, and to elicit information which may inform the development of the training and support component of the Additional Practice Nurses for Rural Australia and Other Areas of Need budget measure for the years 2005-06 to 2008-09.

• General practice
• Nursing

This booklet provides answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about needle and syringe programs. It is part of the needle and syringe programs information kit.

• Drugs and substance abuse

This booklet summarises, in a quick-reference format, the literature on needle and syringe programs. It is part of the needle and syringe programs information kit.

• Drugs and substance abuse

This plan provides national direction in identifying, avoiding and reducing harm across all environments in which care of people with mental health disorders is provided.

• Mental health

The National Hepatitis C Strategy provides a foundation for national action that will guide Australia’s response to hepatitis C over the next three years.

• Communicable diseases
• Diseases and conditions
• Hepatitis C

The Sharing Health Care Initiative demonstration projects were implemented in order to test how various intervention models of chronic condition self-management could be used in the community.

• Chronic disease

This discussion paper provides information on what has been achieved nationally in improving the quality of Australian public specialised mental health services over the first decade of the National Mental Health Strategy.

• Mental health

This publication outlines priorities to guide the development of national mental health information over the period of the National Mental Health Plan 2003-2008 and beyond.

• Mental health

The Review was commissioned by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in accordance with commitments made under the National Competition Policy. It provided a Preliminary Report to COAG in November 1999, and a Final Report in February 2000.

• Councils
• Pharmacy

The Final Report was publicly released by the Council of Australian Governments on 18 February 1999. It contains the Review's analysis, findings and recommendations on its Terms of Reference. It also includes assessments of each State and Territory Act referred to it against the framework of the Review's recommendations.

• Councils
• Pharmacy

The Review was given the task under the National Competition Policy to examine collectively specified Commonwealth, State and Territory legislation. It was asked particularly to assess effects of that legislation on competition in the regulatory areas of the ownership of pharmacies, the location of pharmacies for the purposes of the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and the registration of pharmacists.

• Councils
• Pharmacy

The National Aged Care Workforce Strategy is an informed reliable framework for long-term structural reforms of the aged care workforce.

• Ageing
• Aged care services
• Health workforce

Previously known as the Draft National Framework for Documenting Care in Residential Aged Care Services

• Aged care services
• Ageing

Annual report on the minimum data set

• Aged care services

A blueprint for national efforts to improve the health-related quality of life for people living with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, reduce the cost and prevalence of these conditions, and reduce the impact on individuals, their carers and communities within Australia.

• Arthritis
• Chronic disease

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• Health education
• Research and development

This report describes Australia's progress over the course of the National Mental Health Strategy between 1993 and 2002.

• Mental health

The National Tobacco Strategy is a statement of resolve by the Australian Government and state and territory governments to work together and in collaboration with non-government agencies to reduce tobacco uptake and exposure.

• Tobacco

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This strategy provides a blueprint for improving the cardiovascular health of Australians and reducing the prevalence of heart, stroke and vascular disease.

• Cardiovascular diseases
• Chronic disease

This workshop focussed on identifying and considering information priorities and strategies under the National Mental Health Plan 2003-2008.

• Mental health

This bulletin provides information on the work of the National Practice Standards Implementation Group, promotes good practice in the uptake of the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce, and responds to questions and ideas from the mental health community.

• Mental health

This page contains a PDF version of the NSFATSIH Context

Goal: To ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoy a healthy life equal to that of the general population that is enriched by a strong living culture, dignity and justice. Includes links to the earlier national Aboriginal health strategy documents.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Goal: To ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoy a healthy life equal to that of the general population that is enriched by a strong living culture, dignity and justice. Includes links to the earlier national Aboriginal health strategy documents.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Goal: To ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoy a healthy life equal to that of the general population that is enriched by a strong living culture, dignity and justice. Includes links to the earlier national Aboriginal health strategy documents.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Goal: To ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoy a healthy life equal to that of the general population that is enriched by a strong living culture, dignity and justice. Includes links to the earlier national Aboriginal health strategy documents.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 2003 was endorsed by the Australian and State/Territory governments through their respective Cabinet processes and signed by all Health Ministers in July 2003.

This plan, which preceded the Fourth national mental health plan, identified four priority themes: mental health promotion and prevention; increasing responsiveness to consumers and carers across all mental health and related services; strengthening quality; and fostering research and innovation across the sector for sustainable programs and services.

• Mental health

This report represents the findings of an independent national review of tele and web counselling services. It also identifies future policy and practice directions aimed at enhancing the tele and web counselling sectors.

• Mental health

This document contains the twelve practice standards for those who work in mental health services within the professions of psychiatry, nursing, social work, psychology and occupational therapy.

• Nursing
• Mental health

This report describes progress made in the National Mental Health Strategy reform agenda set by all Australian Health Ministers in 1992. Particular emphasis is given to developments under the Second National Mental Health Plan.

• Mental health

A-Z listing of publications relevant to National Medicines Policy (NMP).

The National Strategic Plan for TB Control in Australia Beyond 2000 was developed by the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC) of CDNA as a statement of directions and priorities. It is the result of extensive collaboration between relevant health authorities across the country and consultation with a range of specialist groups.

• Communicable diseases

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: This manual has been developed as as a concise source of standardised information about hepatitis C to assist health care workers.

• Communicable diseases

This publication provides a broad policy context and a framework for state and territory policies and guidelines. The policy outlines treatment issues in regard to the prescribing and dispensing of buprenorphine.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - The aim of this report is to provide a summary of all the projects funded under the National Breastfeeding Strategy.

• Women's health
• Child health
• Nutrition

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - The aim of this report is to provide a summary of all the projects funded under the National Breastfeeding Strategy.

• Women's health
• Child health
• Nutrition

Comorbidity (co-occurence) of mental disorders and substance use disorders is widespread and often associated with poor treatment outcome, severe illness course and high service use. This report documents the first stage of the National Comorbidity Project, a national workshop on comorbidity.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Mental health

The National Palliative Care Strategy guides palliative care policy development and service delivery across Australia.

• Palliative care

This publication outlines a strategic framework and plan for action to address the promotion, prevention and early intervention priorities and outcomes outlined in the Second National Mental Health Plan.

• Mental health

A national best practice model to reduce young people's access to tobacco.

• Tobacco

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: The National Hepatitis C Strategy 1999-2000 to 2003-2004 was launched in June 2000 by the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care. The Strategy has two primary aims to reduce the transmission of hepatitis C in Australia, and to minimise the personal and social impacts of hepatitis C infection.

• Communicable diseases
• Diseases and conditions
• Hepatitis C

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy 1999-2000 to 2003-2004 builds on an important foundation established under previous HIV/AIDS Strategies - the partnership between and with affected communities, governments at all levels, and medical, scientific and healthcare professionals.

• HIV & AIDS
• Communicable diseases
• Diseases and conditions

The national model was developed as a mechanism capable of objectively demonstrating the quality of services provided by psychiatrists and private psychiatric hospitals.

• Mental health

The national action plan provides an overview of the national burden of depression, focuses on ways of promoting mental health, and emphasises the prevention of depression, early intervention, treatment and access to high quality care.

• Mental health

These recommendations are an outcome of the Substance Misuse Program Review. They were consensually derived to assist primary care practitioners with decisions about the management of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who present in primary care settings with alcohol related problems.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Alcohol

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

Key information on the epidemiology of diabetes, costs and associated issues in the community together with an outline of the mission, principles and goals of the strategy.

• Diabetes
• Chronic disease

This report provides an overview of the incidence, prevalence and cost of diabetes, and gives baseline information on underlying trends in prevention and treatment.

• Diabetes

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

The strategy sought to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms. It aimed to prevent the uptake of tobacco use, reduce numbers of those who use tobacco products and reduce exposure to harmful health consequences either from smoking or from exposure to tobacco smoke.

• Tobacco

This document presents a strategy for reducing the harm caused by drugs in Australia.

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

The first publication in the Occasional Papers Series, National leadership through performance assessment, takes a critical look at departmental frameworks for performance information and monitoring. It comprises two papers with a common theme and complementary purposes

This report forms part of an evaluation of the National Drug Strategy 1993-1997. It describes the strategy and evidence of its impact, details concerns and issues about its conceptual basis, discusses the balance of effort, partnerships and management, and provides recommendations for the future of the strategy.

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

This publication is a general guide for medical practitioners, allied health professionals and others involved in the provision of methadone treatment services.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This document outlines a set of mental health service standards which can be applied to all mental health services across Australia.

• Mental health

This policy, which preceded the National mental health policy 2008, was a joint statement by the health ministers of the Commonwealth, states and territories of Australia. Its intention was to set a clear direction for future development of mental health services in Australia so that appropriate services would be accessible to all Australians with mental health problems or mental disorders.

• Mental health

The Plan aims for a national approach to mental health policy and service delivery, strengthened reform of mental health services and a mechanism to address agreed priority issues. It is to be read in conjunction with the National Mental Health Policy 1992.

• Mental health

This document formed part of the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NCADA) which was a national effort to minimise the harmful effects of both legal and illegal drugs on Australian society. It outlines the national health policy on tobacco and suggests ways in which the policy might be implemented.

• Tobacco

PDF version of the National Aboriginal Health 1989 Strategy