Publications

 Historical reports from the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit (NTSRU)

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Eye health

The Transition Care Program Guidelines 2011 (the Guidelines) are an updated version of the Transition Care Program Guidelines 2005 which were developed by the Australian Government in consultation with all states and territories through the Transition Care Working Group.

• Aged care services
• Ageing

This project implemented consumer participation demonstration projects in a variety of drug treatment settings in Australia. It followed the phase one research project which recommended a series of priority actions to support education and training in relation to consumer participation.

• Drugs and substance abuse

This report presents consolidated information on the performance of the national HACC Program in 2008-09 across the states and territories, including against Key Performance Indicators. It also includes client case studies, funding information and a snapshot of HACC clients and services across the states and territories, and research projects undertaken in 2008-09.

• Annual reports
• Ageing
• Aged care services
• Seniors

The Strategy builds and communicates an evidence base to support decision making around primary health care, focussed on the priority areas of the National Primary Health Care Strategy.

• Primary health care
• Research and development

List of tobacco-related resources.

• Tobacco

Advice for parents on how to communicate with adolescents and when and where to seek help.

• Youth health
• Mental health

Advice for parents on helping children deal with loss and change and problems relating to fitting in at school.

• Child health
• Mental health

Advice to parents on relationships, including making time to be together, dealing with family breakup and getting support.

• Mental health

Advice for parents on how to survive the first year with a new baby.

• Infant Health
• Mental health

Advice for parents on managing and improving behaviour for children aged one to four years.

• Child health
• Mental health

This strategy is 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
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 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

The following page shows the Impact of PBS Reform - Report to Parliament

• Pharmaceutical benefits
• Prescribed drugs
• Pharmacy

Data collection and methodology considerations of the evaluation of the graphic health warnings on tobacco products.

• Tobacco

This report, which is the first in the program's 24-year history, presents consolidated information on the performance of the national HACC program. It provides a snapshot of the HACC clients and services by state and teritory and nationally.

This report, which is the first in the program's 24-year history, presents consolidated information on the performance of the national HACC program. It provides a snapshot of the HACC clients and services by state and teritory and nationally.

• Ageing
• Aged care services
• Annual reports

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

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.

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.

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

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.

An Implementation Kit to accompany The Australian Pain Society's Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Management strategies.

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• Drugs

The Community Visitors Scheme (CVS) is a federally-funded program, established to promote links between people living in an aged care home and the wider community.

• Ageing
• Aged care services

The Community Visitors Scheme (CVS) is a federally-funded program, established to promote links between people living in an aged care home and the wider community.

• Ageing
• Aged care services

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.

National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Eye health

Information for Approved Providers and their subcontractors (transition care service providers), to give a general understanding of how monthly payments of the Australian Government subsidy are calculated, processed and paid.

The Handbook aims to assist ACATs to develop an understanding of transition care to ensure that older people are accurately and consistently assessed as being eligible for the Transition Care Program.

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. Final report of The Aged Care Nurse Practitioner Pilot Project (ACNPPP) that was developed by the ACT Government.

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

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• Research and development
• Suicide prevention
• Injury prevention

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• Health education
• Research and development

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

• Tobacco

Learning resources to assist frontline workers address the needs of young people on issues relating to illicit drugs.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Alcohol
• Youth health

This page contains links to the publication 'The Prevention of Substance Use, Risk and Harm in Australia - a review of the evidence'.

• Drugs
• Illegal drugs

The 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies evaluated two of the key public health strategies in Australia. The Australian Government Response to the 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies addresses the recommendations of the Reviews and outlines Government policy in relation to HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and related issues.

• HIV & AIDS
• Communicable diseases
• Hepatitis C

This report is the result of research undertaken in 1999 to assist with the identification of mental health data items and data sets to determine useful performance indicators and benchmarks for mental health services.

• Mental health

This paper explores the patient casemix of a number of known trends. That is, it uses the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) v4 classification to investigate trends in the utilisation of admitted patient services; the average length of stay (ALOS); the public/private balance (both in terms of patients and hospitals); and, finally, the use of hospitals by older people.

• Hospitals

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 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

In considering the Australian medical workforce this paper describes its context, characteristics and significant trends. It reviews its geographic and structural distribution problems, analyses government workforce policy and planning, and outlines recent initiatives by the Commonwealth to influence workforce outcomes. For comparative purposes, the paper describes the workforce characteristics and policies of four broadly similar countries, and the final chapter highlights key issues and questions for future workforce planning.

• Health personnel

This Guide, divided into twelve modules, covers all aspects of implementing occupational health and safety in residential aged care.

• Aged care services
• Ageing

This document synthesises existing work on the interrelations of social capital with health and mental health, and recommends areas for further research.

• Mental health

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• Primary health care

Professor Gray's report on the Two Year Review of Aged Care Reforms was released on 16 May 2001, together with the Government's Response to the Review and its recommendations

• Aged care services
• Ageing

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 document constitutes a joint response to the JETACAR report by the Australian Goverment Departments of Health and Aged Care and Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia.

• Health categories

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

• Palliative care

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 is the fifth volume in the series and examines the role of technology in health care in Australia. This paper does not attempt to provide a comprehensive coverage of all issues relevant to health technology. Instead, it attempts to examine some of the more significant issues in order to introduce the reader to the complexities of the area. It presents, where available, illustrative empirical information, examples and commentary from key researchers, and provides leads into the literature for further reading.

This is the sixth volume in the series and considers issues associated with the quality of Australian health care services. The paper canvasses some of the issues faced by government in intervening to best support high quality health care. A number of current Commonwealth government interventions are described across a range of regulatory, financing and research and development approaches. The range of national machinery to promote the quality of health care is also described.

This paper uses national hospital morbidity data and the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) classification to identify the casemix of different age groups. Major Diagnostic Categories (MDCs), Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), adjacent DRGs, DRG types and clinical profiles are all taken into account. Public and private hospitals are covered, but only acute episodes are considered in scope.

• Casemix

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

This report outlines findings and recommendations relating to information sharing between police and mental health services. Particular consideration is given to ethical and legislative issues, an information/referral network, and joint service protocols.

• Mental health

Antibiotics are used to treat and prevent infectious bacterial diseases in humans and in domestic and food-producing animals.

• Antibiotic resistance

This study projects future health costs attributable to the progressive ageing of the Australian population based on extensive administrative data on medical practitioner visits (to GPs and specialists), prescription drug consumption and hospital admissions. Scenarios based on these cost data were applied to projections of the Australian population by age and sex out to 2051 — by which time the transient effects of the 'baby-boom' cohort will have worked their way through the system.

• Health care systems

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

• Mental health

A resource kit for consumers of mental health services and family carers, to assist them in developing their advocacy skills.

• Carers
• Mental health

This publication provides a process for assessing services against the National Standards for Mental Health Services.

• Mental health

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 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 DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: National Drug Strategy Monograph Series No. 25.

• Drugs
• 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