Publications

This report summarises evidence regarding outcomes attributed to systems-level intersectoral linkages involving mental health services, and identifies barriers and facilitators to the intersectoral linkage process.

• Mental health

Standards for the handling, storage, disposal and transport of security sensitive biological agents and suspected security sensitive biological agents.

This strategy builds on the first national Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs) Strategy. 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.

• Sexual Health

This strategy builds on five previous strategies which guided Australia’s response to HIV and AIDS between 1989 and 2009. 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.

• HIV & AIDS

This report presents the ideas, preferences and areas of consensus which emerged throughout the national scoping project for a new peak national mental health consumer organisation. It outlines an approach to organisational development which foreshadows a strong, viable and accountable organisation based on good governance principles and reflecting the need for an organisation which can deliver for and with mental health consumers nationwide.

• Mental health

This guide is for adults who have engaged in self-harm. It informs them of the best possible assessment, treatment and support and what to expect of services intended to reduce self-harm and its related suffering.

• Mental health

This guide was developed for adults and young people with schizophrenia or who suspect they have schizophrenia and covers early treatment, support and recovery.

• Mental health

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.

This summative evaluation shows that progress was made in all the key areas and stated outcomes of the National Mental Health Plan 2003-2008.

• Mental health

This community guide to evidence-based best practice in social and behavioural interventions is intended for use by Aboriginal health workers, Aboriginal sexual health workers and other health clinic staff involved in sexual health promotion. It has been synthesised from a systemic review of published literature of what is effective in sexual health promotion in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Sexual Health

This report examines the range and evidence base of models for protecting against risk of suicide for people with a mental illness following discharge from a mental health service.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

Complicated grief is grief that involves the presentation of certain grief-related symptoms at a time beyond what is considered adaptive. The 88 studies analysed in this review were selected because they were evidence based, published in an English-language peer-review journal between 1990 and 2005, and originated in a country with a comparative health system and social and cultural similarities to Australia.

• Palliative care

A flipchart to raise awareness of the effects of petrol sniffing and inhalant abuse.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Drugs and substance abuse

This guide was developed for adults and young people who have, or suspect they have, schizophrenia. It covers early treatment, support and recovery.

• Mental health

This guide is for adults who have engaged in self-harm. It informs them of assessment, treatment and support options and what to expect of services intended to reduce self-harm and its related suffering.

• Mental health

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• Injury prevention

Standards and guidelines reflecting the quality management and services expected of a residential aged care service. The Manual has been developed to assist service providers to comply with their obligations under the Aged Care Act 1997.

• Aged care services
• Ageing

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Research and development
• Legislation
• Child health
• Injury prevention

Flipchart providing information to assist smokers to quit.

• General practice
• Tobacco

Information that general practitioners and other practice staff can apply to identify smokers and assist them to quit.

• Tobacco
• General practice

• Nutrition

This brochure will help you to become aware of the warning signs of mental health problems, the importance of seeking early help and the ways you can help support your child or young person.

• Child health
• Carers
• Youth health
• Mental health

A package of materials designed to assist residential aged care services to gain and use views of residents. The materials in the package complement major aspects of the aged care reform strategy and provide a practical way for services to learn more about residents’ needs and concerns.

• Aged care services
• Ageing

Stigma against people who have experienced a mental illness is deeply entrenched in our culture. This report presents the nature of the problems associated with stigma and through its recommendations suggests positive strategies to genuinely impact on stigma in our society.

• Mental health

The outcomes and decisions of the Future Directions in Practice Nursing Workshop held in July 2001 to discuss the ways forward for practice nursing.

• General practice
• Nursing

This is the executive summary of a report which considers whether media portrayals of suicide can lead to imitation. The report reviews studies of a variety of media (newspaper, film, television, music and books) and both fictional and non-fictional portrayals of suicide.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

This report considers whether media portrayals of suicide can lead to imitation. It reviews studies of a variety of media (newspaper, film, television, music and books) and both fictional and non-fictional portrayals of suicide.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

The principal goal of this study was to identify the most appropriate nature of information on falls and their prevention when communicating with older people and their carers.

• Statistics
• Research and development
• Aged care services
• Injury prevention

Based on Western Australian hospital data covering admissions and discharges during 1994-95 and 1995-96, this study focuses on the experiences of older Australians who were admitted to hospital: how they came to be admitted and why; and where they went afterwards (including the proportion who went into a nursing home). This is only a partial picture of older Australians' use of health services because it is restricted to hospital admissions and discharges.

• Hospitals

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 plan provides a national framework for future activity in mental health reform by building on the achievements to date and identifying additional areas for national activity.

• Mental health

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