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Key Resources

Reference (Online):

• Australia's Health (AIHW online biennial health report)
• Australian Government Dept of Health and Ageing (see Links for State & Territory Depts and Publications )
• National Health and Medical Research Council (Aus)
• National Public Health Partnership (Aus)
• World Health Organization

Statistics

Health Statistics:

• ABS Statistics Australian Bureau of Statistics - provides the latest statistical releases
• Australian Institute of Health & Welfare
• HNPStats - the World Bank's Health, Nutrition & Population Data Platform
• National Center for Health Statistics (USA)- provides US public health statistics
• Statistical Overview of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia (AHREOC)
• UK National Statistics (Health & Care)
• WHOSIS (World Health Organization Statistical Information System)

Internet Resources

Associations & Societies

• American Public Health Association
• Public Health Association of Australia
• Public Health Association of New Zealand
• World Federation of Public Health Associations- scroll down to find more Public Health Associations worldwide

Conferences

• Health Conferences- compiled by Victorian Govt Health Information
• Ozzieweb-Health "Conferences"
• Public Health Association of Australia Conferences
• Public Health Conferences Worldwide
• National Rural Health Conferences- held in Australia

Diseases & Conditions

• Asthma Foundations of Australia- provides asthma education, information, research, community advocacy and support to people with asthma and their carers
• Australian Drug Foundation- independent, non-profit organisation working to prevent and reduce alcohol and drug problems in the Australian community
• Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity (ASSO)- working to improve the understanding and management of overweight and obesity in the Australasian region
• Diabetes Australia
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)- the national agency for health and welfare statistics which also develops health promotion activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States
• Communicable Diseases Australia- Australian Government - Department of Health and Ageing
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report (USA)- information on AIDS and HIV in the U.S.through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Dept of Health and Human Services)
• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)- part of the World Health Organization
• John Hopkins AIDS Service (USA)- accurate, updated information on HIV/AIDS treatment, guidelines, prevention, research, education, and epidemiology from doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital ; includes online Q&A, JHU standards of care
• National Breast Cancer Centre (Aus)
• Positive Women (Aus)- support and advocacy for women with HIV/AIDS by women with HIV/AIDS
• Prostate Cancer (Aus)- support and promotion by the Lions Clubs of Australia
• Suicide Prevention Communications Project Publications (Aus) - produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Suicide Prevention Resources (Aus) - produced by the Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health (Auseinet)

Evidence Based Health Care

• Resource Bank (Cochrane Consumers and Communications Review Group)- Interventions affecting consumer communication and involvement in health care

Gateways

• Health Matters: the ABC's Gateway to Health (Aus)- health related stories from ABC television, radio and online
• HealthInsite (Aus)- wide ranging up-to-date quality assured information on topics like diabetes and cancer developed by the Commonwealth Government of Australia
• HealthWeb (USA) health information compiled and arranged in by health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR)
• Men's Health Information & Resource Centre (Aus)- includes international and Australian links compiled by the University of Western Sydney
• National Institutes of Health (USA)- the nation's medical research agency, making important medical discoveries (part of the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services)
• National Library of Medicine (USA)
• National Women's Health Information Center (USA)- immediately searchable by keyword or under categories like Eating disorders
• OMNI: the UK's Gateway to High Quality Internet Resources in Health and Medicine- free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites via keyword or advanced searching
• Public Health Resources on the Internet (Aus)- includes many reputable international and national links and was previously hosted by the QUT School of Public Health
• Women's Health Victoria- an independent state-wide women's health promotion, advocacy and information service
• Women's Health Australia - the Australian longitudinal study on women's health

Health Law

• WebLaw Health Law - maintained by the La Trobe University Law Librarian

Health Promotion

• Australian Health Promoting Schools Association- promotion within Australian Schools
• Australian Health Promotion Association
• Health Promotion(Vic Govt)
• VicHealth- site of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation which is committed to the health of all Victorians

Rural Health

• Rural Health - Rural health information from the Commonwealth government's Dept of Health & Ageing
• Farmsafe Australia Inc -health and safety on Australian Farms
• Women's Health Loddon Mallee - women's health needs in the Loddon Mallee
• National Rural Health Alliance (Aus)- the peak national body working to improve the health of Australians living in rural and remote areas
• Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services Division (Vic)- the state government Division responsible for the full range of health and aged care services in rural and regional Victoria
• Safety on the Farm (Aus) - compiled by WorkSafe Western Australia
• University Department of Rural Health, Northern New South Wales- a collaborative project between the University of Newcastle and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing located in Tamworth