Social Policy Resources

Health Resources

General Resources
Bioterrorism
Dental Health
Disability Support and Services
Diseases and Conditions
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
Health Statistics
Journals and Databases
Other Resource Guides and Directories
Overseas Ministries and Organisations
Suicide
Women's Health

General Resources

Finding Health Information Tips (Senators, Members and their staff only)

• Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
  
• Health Workforce
• Private Health Information
• Australian Bureau of Statistics Health Information
• Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition (ACITHN)
  
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
  
• Australian Medical Association (AMA)
  
• Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA)
• Cochrane Library Free Access
  • Australasian Cochrane Centre
    
• Communicable Diseases Australia
  
• Consumers' Health Forum of Australia
  
• Family Medicine Research Centre
  
• Health Report program on ABC Radio National
  
• Medicare Levy Surcharge from the Australian Taxation Office
  
• National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH)
  
• National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
  
• National Public Health Partnership (NPHP)
  
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
• Whonamedit.com - a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms or medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person

Parliamentary Library E-briefs

• Medicare - Background Brief
• Hospitals in Australia
• The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - an Overview
• Illicit Drugs in Australia: use harm and policy responses
• Healthy Measures - key health statistics

Bioterrorism

• Australia's Biosecurity Health Response
• Australian Chief Medical Officer guidance on perceived anthrax threat
• CDC smallpox vaccination guidelines - USA
• CDC public health emergency information - USA
• WHO Bioterrorism

Dental Health

• Australian Dental Association
• Australian Research Centre for Population Oral health
• Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives: Australia's National Oral Health Plan 2004-2013
• Parliamentary Library - Dental Health: Background Note (Senators and Members only)
  

Disability Support and Services

• Disability and Carer Programs site from the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services
• Disability Rights page from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
  
• Australian Association of the Deaf (AAD)
  
• Spinal Cord Injuries Australia
  
• Deaf Sports Web
  
• Disability Information & Resource Centre (South Australia) and the web portal EnableNet
  
• Independent Living Centre of Western Australia
  
• Office of Hearing Services - Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
• Royal Blind Society (NSW and ACT)

Diseases and Conditions

Avian Influenza (or A(H5N1) or Bird Flu)

• Department of Health and Ageing, Avian Influenza
• Centres for Disease Control
• Interactive map of avian influenza
• WHO avian influenza fact sheet
• WHO latest information on avian influenza

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

• Department of Health and Ageing includes Chief Medical Officer statements and health updates
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Travel Bulletin
• Centers for Disease Control (USA) includes fact sheets
• World Health Organization

General diseases and conditions

• Global Health Facts
  
• HealthInsite health information coordinated by the Department of Health and Ageing
  
• USA: National Guideline Clearinghouse
  
• USA: Virtual Hospital
  
• Hepatitis C Council of NSW
  
• Hepatitis Foundation International
  
• Multiple Sclerosis Society
  
• National Asthma Council Australia
  
• National Breast Cancer Centre
  
• New South Wales Cancer Council

Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

• Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA)
  
• Australian Drug Foundation
  
• Australian Institute of Criminology, Alcohol and Illicit Drugs and Drug Use Statistics
  
• Australian National Council on Drugs
  
• British National Formulary
  
• Centre for Harm Reduction
  
• ClinicalStudyResults.org is a central database for clinical study results for US marketed pharmaceuticals
  
• Drug Library - Drug Reform Coordination Network Online Library of Drug Policy
  
• Drug Policy Alliance - USA
  
• Drug Policy Expert Committee - appointed by the Victorian Government
  
• Drugscope - UK
  
• Drugtext - USA
  
• EROWID'S Psychoactive Vault - USA
  
• European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) - the EU drugs agency, and the Qualitative European Drug Research Network (QED)
  
• Guardian Unlimited Special Reports, Drugs in Britain
  
• International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS)
  
• International Narcotics Control Board
  
• National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
  
• National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)
  
• National Drug Research Institute
  
• National Drug Strategy
  
• National Institute on Drug Abuse - USA
  
• Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) - USA
  
• Pharmacy Guild of Australia
  
• Pharmweb - pharmacy information resources
  
• Schaffer Library of Drug Policy - USA
  
• Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits
  
• UK: Home Office - Drug Strategy
  
• UN Office on Drugs and Crime
  
• US: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) includes the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)
  
• US Surgeon General: Health Consequence of Smoking
  

Health Statistics

• Quarterly bulk billing data from the Department of Health and Ageing
• Private health insurance membership and coverage from the Private Health Insurance Administration Council
• Health Insurance Commission interactive Medicare and PBS data
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare health expenditure data
• Health at a glance OECD Health indicators (Senators and Members only)

Journals and Databases

• Better Health Channel
• Free Medical Journals.com
• List of Medical Journals from the Primary Care Internet Guide Better Health Channel British Medical Journal
• List of Medical Wikis
• Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)
• JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
• MedlinePlus
• The Lancet
• The Medical Journal of AustraliaMedlinePlusMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• The New England Journal of Medicine
• PubMed provides access to Medline and other databases
• WHO Clinical Trial Search Portal

Other Resource Guides and Directories

• NSW Public Health Bulletin
  
• Health Information Service - State Library of NSW
• MedBioWorld
• Medic8.com - UK medical portal
  
• MedicalConferences.com
• National Health Information Centre (NHIC) - USA
• Public Health Resources on the Internet
  

Overseas Ministries and Organisations

• Canada: Health Canada
  
• Denmark: National Board of Health
  
• New Zealand: Ministry of Health
  
• Singapore: Ministry of Health
  
• UK: Department of Health (England) and publications
• USA: Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health


• International Working Group for the Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines
  
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
  
• Project HOPE
  
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Suicide

• Research Centre for Injury Studies - Flinders University
  
  • Topic Pages - select Suicide/Self-Harm from the Topic Search drop-down menu
• Suicide Prevention - Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
  

Women's Health

• Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services - UK/IRL
  
• Australian Women's Health Network (AWHN)
  
• BreastScreen Victoria
  
• Jean Hailes Foundation
  
• Positive Women
  
• Women's Health Victoria

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