Back problems are a range of conditions related to the bones, joints, connective tissue, muscles and nerves of the back. These conditions can affect the neck (cervical spine),upper back (thoracic spine) and lower back (lumbar spine) as well as the sacrum and tailbone (coccyx). Back problems include: • pain in the neck, lower, middle and...

Overview: This audit assessed whether the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS), WorkSafe, Ambulance Victoria (AV) and health services are adequately protecting healthcare workers from the risks and incidence of occupational violence. All audited agencies have implemented improvements aimed at preventing and reducing occupational violence. However, these improvements are incomplete, inconsistently applied and have...

This final report presents the findings from each of the phases of the Engaging Stakeholders in Identifying Priority Evidence-Practice Gaps and Strategies for Improvement in Primary Health Care (ESP) Project.

Cultural Competence is one of the competencies required of all Health Practitioners in New Zealand since the enacting of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act in 2003. This dissertation examines what relationship there is between this concept and Bioethics and Health Law.

Increasingly, partnerships and collaborations are becoming more common, and they will continue to do so because they provide for a strategic approach to the development of common agendas and pooled resourcing, to improve health outcomes. The Peninsula Model for Primary Health Planning is a good example of this approach, using the Commonwealth’s commissioned logic model...