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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Nursing Council
Australian Nursing Federation
Centre for Applied Ethics (U. Brit. Columbia, Canada)
The Joanna Briggs Institute For Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery
Health Web
National Health & Medical Research Council (Australia)
Resources for Nurses and Families
World Health Organisation
Ageing & Aged Care
Australian
Aged and Community Care Home Page
(Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care)
Aged and Community Services Australia
(formerly, Aged Care Australia). Australia's national peak body of not for profit church, charitable and community providers of aged care services.
Alzheimer's Association of Australia
National site, which links to State branches with a wealth of practical information sheets, reading guides and links to dementia sites globally.
Australian Association of Gerontology
Australian Institute of Family Studies
An independent statutory authority which supports Australian family research, policy and practice.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information.
See in particular – Australia's Health, Australia's Welfare and Older Australia at a Glance.
Australian Society of Geriatric Medicine (ASGM)
Centre for Ageing Studies
(Flinders University of South Australia)
Centre for Education and Research on Ageing
A joint centre of the University of Sydney, Depart. of Medicine & Concord Repatriation General Hospital.
Council on the Ageing (Australia)
HealthInsite
- quality assured information on health topics, links to over 50 sites from Australia's main health organisations.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
National Ageing Research Institute
- conducts medical research (biological, clinical and service delivery) into the causes and consequences of ageing and its social implications.
NSW Commitee on Ageing (NSWCOA)
- advises the Government on matters affecting needs & interests of the elderly.
Overseas - Governments & Organisations
NIH Home Page National Institutes of Health news, current information, announcements and forms for grants & contracts. There are also pointers to further NIH resources about diseases, practice guidelines etc.
World Health Organization WWW Home Page WHO gives information about its major programs, conferences and personnel, as well as access to the WHO Report, press releases, newsletters, statistical information and advice re international travel, health and vaccination requirements.
Collections of Evaluated Health Sites
HealthWebThe HealthWeb Project seeks to organize and enhance access to Internet resources for the international health sciences community. Working together within their "areas of excellence," the health sciences librarians and information professionals from the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago (the CIC - Committee on Institutional Cooperation) select critically evaluated resources, rather than providing an exhaustive index to health-related information.
OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information OMNI is a UK gateway to quality Internet resources in medicine, biosciences, healthcare and health management.
Evidence Based Practice
Click here for Evidence Based Practice websites.
Health Media
ABC Radio National Health Report
Australian department of Health and Aged Care
CDC : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.A.)
Health Stats Online, Australia
National Health & Medical Research Council, Australia
The Patient's Guide to Healthcare Information on the Internet
Public Health Laboratory Service (U.K.)
Med Help International
Mediconsult : the Virtual Medical Center
Reuters Medical News
World Health Organization
Health Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Click on the "Australia Now" page and then select the "Health" section.
AusStats (ABS Online Subscription Service)
AusStats delivers timely access to more than 2,000 ABS Publications, time series data and tables (over 90,000 series in spreadsheet format), metadata (documentation of surveys, concepts and data items), economic models and 1996 Census Basic Community Profiles. New data will be added as it becomes available.
AIHW : Australian Institute of Health & Welfare
… an independent health and welfare statistics and information agency in the Commonwealth of Australia's Health and Aged Care portfolio … established … in 1987.
… over 70 publications a year. Products [range] from short discussion papers and data disks to two major biennial reports to Parliament, Australia's Health and Australia's Welfare
… other major products include: Australia's Food and Nutrition, Australian Health Trends, Waiting for Elective Surgery in Australian Public Hospitals, Child Abuse and Neglect, Aged Care Services in Australia's States and Territories, Public Housing in Australia, The Demand for Disability Support Services in Australia, the National Health Information Model, and the National Health Data Dictionary.
National Health & Medical Research Counci l (Australia).
An excellent site for Australian health statistics.
Use the "Search" facility provided. Extensive detail (where available), is usually in PDF documents.
NSW Health - Public Health Division
The "Area Health Service Health Status Profiles" (PDF)
provide very useful information on all New South Wales Area Health Services..
WHO (World Health Organisation)
Refer to the Reports Section for World Health Reports from 1995– to date.
WHOSIS Statistical Information System World Health Organisation.
Health and health-related statistical information from the WHO Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy.
Mental Health
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