Publications - H

Hearing Health Sector Committee Roadmap for Hearing Health Communiqué 25 July 2018

The Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP, Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, has established a Hearing Health Sector Committee of representative stakeholders to progress the development of a Roadmap for Hearing Health. The Roadmap will set out future reform directions and priorities for the hearing sector that will lead to short, medium and long-term improvements in hearing health for all Australians.

• Hearing

Hearing Industry Roundtable Communiqué 22 March 2018

The Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP, Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, met with hearing industry representative groups on Thursday, 22 March 2018 to listen to their views on recent reviews and parliamentary inquiries into hearing health and discuss their concerns on challenges faced by the hearing sector.

• Hearing

How much does tuberculosis cost? An Australian healthcare perspective analysis

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a disease of high morbidity in Australia, with implications for both public health and the individual. There is minimal published TB cost data in the Australian setting. We found the costs of managing latent TB to be far lower than in cases of active TB. A program designed to detect and treat latent TB (LTBI) to prevent subsequent disease may be cost effective in appropriately selected patients.

• Communicable diseases

Health Workforce Australia Annual Report

Health Workforce Australia Annual Report

• Annual reports

Healthy Bodies Need Healthy Drinks Resource Package

The Healthy Bodies Need Healthy Drinks resources promote healthy drink choices and discourage excessive consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Healthcare Identifiers Act and Service Review - Final Report - June 2013

Section 35 of the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (HI Act) requires that an independent review of the Healthcare Identifiers (HI) legislation and HI Service is conducted after two years of operation. The review was conducted by Ms Joanna Kelly.

The aim of the review was to ensure that the HI Act provides the regulatory support to enable the HI Service to operate efficiently and support the sharing of clinical information in practice.

• e-Health

Healthy Body Art

Healthy Body Art, pull-out brochure for consumers on healthy tattooing and piercing.

Health Workforce Fund

Flexible Fund Guidelines - Health Workforce Fund - January 2014

• Health workforce

Home Medicines Review Program Qualitative Research Project Final Report

This page contains the Final Report for the Home Medicines Review Qualitative Research Project

• Prescribed drugs

Heparin - Consensus Guidelines for Australian Clinicians for the usage of anti-coagulants during heparin-based product shortages

Guidelines to assist with contingency planning to manage the clinical implications of a shortage of heparin based products.

• Prescribed drugs

Hepatitis C Prevention, Treatment and Care: Guidelines for Australian Custodial Settings

A supplementary document to these Guidelines which provides further background to hepatitis C in custodial settings and expands on the evidence base for the Guidelines is available from the Department of Health. The supplementary document also includes appendices, additional reading and references.

• Communicable diseases
• Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C Prevention, Treatment and Care: Guidelines for Australian Custodial Settings

The health and corrections sectors are committed to working jointly to strengthen the response to emerging public health issues in custodial settings.

• Communicable diseases
• Hepatitis C

Health Advice for Members of Australian Medical Assistance Teams Going to the Asia-Pacific Area

This document provides health advice about personal health protection to persons planning to travel to disaster-affected areas in the Asia-Pacific area as a member of an Australian government health team.

Health Advice for Members of Australian Medical Assistance Teams Returning from the Asia-Pacific Area

The purpose of this document is to provide health advice to persons who are returning from disaster-affected areas in the Asia-Pacific area as a member of an Australian government health team.

Heart, stroke and vascular health in Australia: resource digest

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - The resource digest draws together relevant reports of national significance relating to cardiovascular health.

• Cardiovascular diseases

Hepatitis C: Informing Australia's National Response

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: Eight papers were commissioned to inform of the development of the National Hepatitis C Strategy 1999-2000 to 2003-2004. The papers span the areas of: clinical research, epidemiology, social and behavioural research, and virology and basic scientific research. This publication represents the technical core of the policy development process.

• Communicable diseases
• Diseases and conditions
• Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C prevention education for injecting drug users in Australia

In its concern with preventing the transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV), this research report examines Australia’s efforts to date in prevention education particularly among people who inject drugs.

• Illegal drugs
• Communicable diseases

Hepatitis C: a review of Australia's response

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: The review documents the extent of the problem posed by Hepatitis C - in terms of the prevalence and incidence of infection, the economic costs to Australia, and the social impact of the disease; assesses the performance of the National Hepatitis C Action Plan and the Nationally Coordinated Hepatitis C Education and Prevention Approach; provides a broad analysis of the current national and State- and Territory-level responses to the epidemic; and recommendations on directions and priorities for national action.

• Communicable diseases
• Diseases and conditions
• Hepatitis C

Helping to prevent neural tube defects: a pharmacist's and assistants' guide to folate (1997),Helping to prevent neural tube defects: a pharmacist's and assistants' guide to folate

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) featured this 8 page booklet on folate in the September 1997 issue of the Australian Pharmacist to target pharmacists and their professional development on folate.

• Infant Health
• Pharmacy
• Women's health

Helping to prevent neural tube defects: a pharmacist's and assistants' guide to folate

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) featured this 8 page booklet on folate in the September 1997 issue of the Australian Pharmacist to target pharmacists and their professional development on folate.

• Infant Health
• Pharmacy
• Women's health

Health and Psychological Consequences of Cannabis Use, The

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

• Drugs
• Drugs and substance abuse
• Illegal drugs