Our work related to preventive health

This program aims to reduce drownings and snow-related injuries and deaths through prevention and intervention.

The WIP improves access to quality medical, nursing, midwifery and allied health services in regional, rural and remote areas. Its financial incentives encourage doctors to work in these areas and support medical practices to employ nurses, midwives and eligible allied health professionals.

This review examined how effective our current health workforce ‘distribution levers’ are. These levers consist of policies and geographic classifications that are intended to distribute health workforce across areas that need them most. The final report is now available.

This website provides resources for young people, Elders, parents, youth workers, community leaders and clinicians in remote Aboriginal communities, to encourage testing of sexually transmissible infections and bloodborne viruses, and get rid of them in the community.

We are working to stop younger people under 65 going into residential aged care. We are helping younger people consider and access suitable accommodation and support.