Publications

Stage two of the Government’s National Health Reform Plan

List of Publications on environmental health currently distributed by the Office of Health Protection of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

• Environmental health

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

The Concise Factbook is a biannual publication that presents key statistics on the Australian health and ageing expenditure.

• Statistics
• Ageing
• Aged care services

Annual report on the minimum data set

• Aged care services

The Australian Government Directory of Services for Older People has been produced as a comprehensive guide to the wide range of services provided for older Australians by the Australian Government

• Aged care services
• Ageing

Resources from the National Binge Drinking Strategy (Drinking NIghtmare) database

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Alcohol
• Youth health

This page provides the html version of the Health Performance Framework Report Summary

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

An analysis of departmental survey data of initial community reactions to the graphic health warnings.

• Tobacco

An overview of the clinical status of people with diabetes attending specialist diabetes services during a period of one month in 2009.

• Diabetes
• Chronic disease

This report identifies actions that can be taken by governments to reform the health system under three reform goals: tackling major access and equity issues that affect health outcomes for people now; redesigning our health system so that it is better positioned to respond to emerging challenges; and creating an agile and self-improving health system for long-term sustainability.

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

This practical guide was developed and considered by the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) for use by public health units during the 2008 influenza season.

• Influenza

The Electronic Decision Support Systems Report was developed by the Australian Health Information Council (AHIC) in consultation with several coopted experts. The report contains a number of key messages and guiding principles for the further development of electronic decision support systems in Australia.

This page provides information on the 2008 Report and Report Summary

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

A report by Michael Legg and Associates to the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing - October 2008.

• Health workforce
• Pathology

The Ageing and Aged Care in Australia booklet provides a concise overview of the Australian Government's ageing and aged care policies and programs.

• Aged care services
• Ageing

Presentation given by WADA representative.

• Exercise
• Sport
• Physical activity

This report evaluates the effectiveness of the Public Access Defibrillation Demonstration project, identifies issues that arose during the trial, and considers lessons which may be relevant to future considerations of public access defibrillation.

• Cardiovascular diseases
• Chronic disease

This study examined factors that either deter or support access to Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) services among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander injecting drug users (IDUs).

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Needle

A review of the requirement for a supply of atropine sulphate tablets as a first-aid antidote in an agricultural workplace setting.

To support the project for the evaluation of the impact of accreditation on the delivery of quality of care and quality of life to residents in Australian Government subsidised residential aged care homes

• Aged care services
• Ageing

This report provides a summary of the key findings from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2008 Report (HPF).

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

This page provides the full report of the findings from the Australian Community Care Needs Assessment – Towards a National Standard

The National Data Repository on the Aged Care Assessment Program (ACAP) Minimum Data Set (MDS) in Australia for the 2005-06 period.

• Aged care services

An overview of the clinical status of people with diabetes attending specialist diabetes services during a period of one month in 2006.

• Diabetes
• Chronic disease

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - Booklet outlining changes to the community care programs

• Ageing
• Aged care services

Annual report on the minimum data set

• Aged care services

This table provides a comprehensive summary of the Government's initial and final responses to the Hogan Review. It also provides updates (in italics) on key initiatives including additional initiatives already put in place by the Australian Government that relate to the issues identified in the Hogan recommendations.

This report explores awareness, attitudes, perceptions and experience of issues relating to illicit drug use and mental illness amongst youth, young adults, their parents and the broader community.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Mental health

This position statement arises from a discussion session on antiviral use for laboratory staff working with H5/Pandemic Influenza A virus at the October 2006 face-to-face meeting of the Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN).

• Communicable diseases

This is the first Report against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework

Measuring the impact of the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Annual report on the minimum data set

• Aged care services

Interim report on the ACCNA Field Trial - October 2006.

• Aged care services
• Ageing

The amendments up to 17 March 2009 have been incorporated

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED This booklet has been designed as a user friendly guide for those who use the Aged Care Client Record (ACCR).

This publication reviews research literature relating to the management and treatment of young children with autism to identify the most effective models of practice.

• Mental health
• Child health
• Autism

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - The Australian Government Directory of Services for Older People has been produced as a comprehensive guide to the wide range of services provided for older Australians by the Australian Government

• Ageing

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

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

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Primary health care

Recommendations in this report cover information privacy, protection against unfair discrimination in employment and insurance, the use of genetic information in forensic investigations and parentage testing and ensuring the highest ethical standards in medical research and practice. The Government has already taken action on some recommendations. Other issues are also being considered, in collaboration with State and Territory Governments.

This page contains the new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005 - 2008.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Blood
• Communicable diseases
• Sexual Health

An overview of the clinical status of people with diabetes attending specialist diabetes services in October 2004.

• Diabetes
• Chronic disease

This treatment clinical practice guideline is for adolescents and adults who have anorexia nervosa or who believe they are at risk of developing it. The guide contains the latest research available on anorexia nervosa and recommendations from recovered consumers to assist you to choose the best kind of treatment.

• Mental health
• Nutrition

This section of the website will give access to the Ageing Budget for 2005-2006. Data is not yet available.

This report discusses the alcohol consumption patterns of teenagers aged 15 to 17 years.

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

The Evaluation of PBS Medicine Supply Arrangements for Remote Area Aboriginal Health Services under Section 100 of the National Health Act.

A free and confidential service promoting the rights of people receiving aged care services

• Ageing

The Commonwealth Aged Care Assessment Program Operational Guidelines outline the Commonwealth's policy and operational requirements for the Aged Care Assessment Program into the future.

• Ageing
• Nursing
• Aged care services

The Commonwealth Aged Care Assessment Program Operational Guidelines outline the Commonwealth's policy and operational requirements for the Aged Care Assessment Program into the future.

• Ageing
• Nursing
• Aged care services

This report is an update of a literature review completed in 2000. The report describes published research and studies on falls prevention for older people.

• Ageing
• Injury prevention

Downloadable Aged Care Certification Assessment Scoring Matrix

Downloadable Assessment Guidelines

The third and final report in a series reporting on the National Tobacco Campaign. It focuses on research conducted from November 1998 to November 2000.

• Tobacco

Development and maintenance of standards and guidelines for pathology laboratories.

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. Prepared by School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology

• Ageing
• Nursing
• Aged care services

This resource provides an overview of key health and medical issues arising from the use of alcohol and other drugs.

• Alcohol
• Drugs
• Health education
• Illegal drugs

Application forms for Residential, Community, and Flexible Care.

This summary report has been prepared to inform health policy and planning decision-makers about the critical factors which have contributed to successful health initiatives.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

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

An evaluation of the effectiveness of a four-session cognitive behavioural intervention among a sample of regular amphetamine users.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report analyses reports of infections with drug-resistant microorganisms that are included in the National Hospital Morbidity Database at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and was published as part of the Communicable Diseases Intelligence supplement on Antimicrobial resistance in Australia, (Volume 27, Suppl, May 2003).

• Antibiotic resistance

This manual helps projects funded under the LIFE Framework to identify indicators and measures that could be used to evaluate their activities.

• Mental health
• Suicide prevention

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

This manual provides an overview of mental health care in general practice, discusses some principles of psychiatric assessment and treatment, and describes the treatment of specific disorders.

• General practice
• Mental health

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. The Aged Care Enrolled Nurses Working Party was appointed to examine an enhanced scope of practice for enrolled nurses and the preparation of enrolled nurses for that practice especially for medication administration and the existing barriers to this preparation.

• Ageing
• Nursing
• Aged care services

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - These guidelines are currently being reviewed to make their implementation more effective.

• Child health
• Nutrition

This report provides an overview of the clinical status of people with diabetes attending specialist diabetes services in July 2002.

This picture guide will help you to manage your asthma.

• Asthma
• Chronic disease

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. Kit of resource materials to support residential aged care homes initiate or improve internal complaints handling. This free resource Kit has been developed in consultation with aged care providers, industry peaks and consumer groups.

• Ageing
• Aged care services

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

The Workforce Strategic Framework presents a 5-10 year reform agenda to build a competent health workforce to address the health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Health workforce

The Workforce Strategic Framework presents a 5-10 year reform agenda to build a competent health workforce to address the health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Health workforce

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Primary health care

Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABL) was first identified in 1996. The three documents available here provide information relevant to the needs of medical practitioners, veterinarians, and the general public.

• Communicable diseases

This paper discusses the changing nature of the aged care environment, in relation to both providers and recipients. The nature of the nursing workforce has changed, and staffing in some areas is not meeting demand. It discusses the viability of an enhanced and more consistent scope of practice among Enrolled Nurses.

• Ageing
• Aged care services
• Carers
• Hospitals
• Nursing

This paper discusses the changing nature of the aged care environment, in relation to both providers and recipients. The nature of the nursing workforce has changed, and staffing in some areas is not meeting demand. It discusses the viability of an enhanced and more consistent scope of practice among Enrolled Nurses.

• Ageing
• Aged care services
• Carers
• Hospitals
• Nursing

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 is the first systematic and comprehensive examination of suicides in Aboriginal communities in Queensland based on community records and available mortality figures. The data provides a picture which is notably different from that for suicide generally, in Queensland and across Australia.

• Mental health
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Suicide prevention

This is the first systematic and comprehensive examination of suicides in Aboriginal communities in Queensland based on community records and available mortality figures. The data provides a picture which is notably different from that for suicide generally, in Queensland and across Australia.

• Mental health
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Suicide prevention

This report describes the results of the sixth national survey on the use of alcohol by secondary students. This includes the prevalence of alcohol use in 1999, changes in use between 1996 and 1999, and changes in prevalence of current and hazardous drinking between 1984 and 1999.

• Alcohol
• Youth health

This report describes the results of the second national survey on the use of over-the-counter and illicit substances by secondary students. This includes the use of specific substances such as analgesics & cannabis, poly-substance use, comparisons of types of substances used, and changes in use between 1996 and 1999.

• Illegal drugs
• Prescribed drugs
• Youth health
• Drugs and substance abuse

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Primary health care

This report provides suicide statistics for all age groups both internationally and in Australia, followed by more detailed consideration of ageing and suicide.

• Ageing
• Suicide prevention

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED

• Primary health care

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

This document describes how treatment of illness and injury is delivered and paid for in Australia, with emphasis on the funding role of the Federal Government. The companion document: Australia: Selected Health Care Delivery and Financing Statistics – May 2004, is also attached.

• Medicare
• Health care systems

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

• Tobacco

The second report to assist in the evaluation of the National Tobacco Campaign.

• Tobacco

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

This paper proposes a population model for mental health to address the high prevalence of mental disorders in the community and the growing burden of disease.

• Mental health

This report shows that there has been improvement in State and Territory mental health legislation, both in terms of human rights protection and in consistency across jurisdictions.

• Mental health
• Legislation

The profile of the Australian population is ageing. Can Australia provide adequate living standards for the growing number of persons in the aged and other dependent groups without seriously undermining the living standards of the general community?

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 evaluation of the first phase of the National Tobacco Campaign reports on campaign reach and recognition, smoking prevalence, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour.

• Tobacco

This study assesses police and other criminal justice attitudes toward the Cannabis Expiation Notice (CEN) system and documents their experience in putting it into effect.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs

This report describes the results of the first national survey on the use of over-the-counter and illicit substances by secondary students in Australia.

• Drugs
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Prescribed drugs
• Youth health

Australia is now much better placed to describe patterns of health and health inequity than it was even five years ago. This capacity needs to be further developed especially in moving away from more traditional health indicators such as mortality, morbidity and risk factors to other dimensions of health such as community capacity, and locational disadvantage. There also needs to be more emphasis on developing process or intermediate indicators for strategies such as intersectoral action and healthy public policy goals such as improved food supply.

• Health care systems

This policy recognises that to further diminish ill health and injury among 0-5 year olds, it is necessary to address the wider determinants of health – the psycho-social, physical and economic environments in which they live – and that this requires active coordination between the health and broader family services sectors.

A list of alcohol resources is available on the Alcohol website.

• Alcohol

This publication reports on trends and patterns of psychostimulant use in Australia and discusses the management of acute and chronic intoxication.

• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs