Publications

This brochure outlines the health warnings required on tobacco product packaging that are part of the Competition and Consumer (Tobacco) Information Standard 2011.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) outlines how to minimise financial, health and reputation risks for local governments with environmental health responsibilities, and protect the interests of their communities and their organisation.

This report presents the main findings of market research carried out in 2011–2012 to evaluate the success of phase 2 of the bowel cancer screening campaign.

This statement outlines the mental health rights and responsibilities of consumers, carers, support persons, service providers and the community.

This paper reviews the available evidence and makes recommendations to guide those investigating and managing non-typhoidal salmonellosis involving food handlers.

This emergency management plan outlines how we will coordinate a national health response to a deliberate release of anthrax in Australia.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) outlines the steps that can be taken to identify an unknown toxicant in a drinking water source.

We collaborated with various Australian medical specialists to produce these guidelines. They provide Australian health facilities with standardised management guidance for radiation incidents.

Australian Government response to recommendations from the Inquiry into Commonwealth Funding and Administration of Mental Health Services report: Letter to Senator Rachel Siewert, Committee Chair

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provides a national approach to environmental health risk assessment.

This report provides a summary of the scientific evidence on the relationships between physical activity and various health outcomes. It describes the process used to develop the Australian guidelines for physical activity for adults aged 18 to 64 years.

Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee report: The regulatory standards for the approval of medical devices in Australia

Australian Government response to the recommendations of the Finance and Public Administration References Committee report on the government’s administration of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Australian Government response to the recommendations of the Senate Community Affairs References Committee report: The social and economic impact of rural wind farms

The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for syphilis.

This guidance from the Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) provide risk assessors with data on human factors for exposure assessment components of environmental health risk assessments.

There are extra physical, psychological and social risks involved for those with a mental illness who want to quit smoking. Find out how you, as a health professional, can help them succeed.

This fact sheet lists ways that you can support someone with a mental illness to quit smoking.

Australian Government response to the Productivity Commission's Caring for Older Australians report

All governments are committed to a national approach to supporting people with disability to maximise their potential and participate as equal citizens in Australian society.

This guide is for health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who want to quit smoking. It has information on medicines that can help quit smoking, including nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).

Australian Government response to the recommendations of the Community Affairs References Committee report on consumer access to pharmaceutical benefits

This document contains the surveillance case definition for varicella zoster (unspecified), which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

This document contains the surveillance case definition for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify us of a case.

Australian Government response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing roundtable forum on burns prevention – July 2010