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. | 2017 | Current | |
Health Workforce Australia Annual Report | 2015 | Current | |
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. | 2014 | Current | |
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. | 2013 | Current | |
Healthy Body Art, pull-out brochure for consumers on healthy tattooing and piercing. | 2011 | Current | |
Flexible Fund Guidelines - Health Workforce Fund - January 2014 | 2011 | Current | |
This page contains the Final Report for the Home Medicines Review Qualitative Research Project | 2009 | Current | |
Guidelines to assist with contingency planning to manage the clinical implications of a shortage of heparin based products. | 2008 | Current | |
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. | 2008 | Current | |
The health and corrections sectors are committed to working jointly to strengthen the response to emerging public health issues in custodial settings. | 2008 | Current | |
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. | 2007 | Current | |
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. | 2007 | Current | |
THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED - The resource digest draws together relevant reports of national significance relating to cardiovascular health. | 2002 | Rescinded | |
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. | 2000 | Rescinded | |
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. | 1999 | Historical | |
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. | 1999 | Rescinded | |
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. | 1998 | Current | |
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. | 1998 | Current | |
THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED: National Drug Strategy Monograph Series No. 25. | 1994 | Rescinded | |
