Preventative health
NARROWER TERMS
Report
People living with HIV accessing NSW aged care services
The demographics associated with People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) are expected to change substantially over the coming years. It's predicted that by 2020, nearly half (44.3%) of the PLHIV population will be over 55 years of age. This report explores the current and future health...
Report
Wellbeing and healing through connection and culture
This review summarises the emerging research and knowledge, key themes and principles surrounding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural perspectives and concepts of healing and social and emotional wellbeing as they relate to suicide prevention.
Strategy
The RHD Endgame Strategy: the blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Australia by 2031
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is preventable. The collective experience of communities and clinicians, in addition to over 25 years of research, means the knowledge and evidence base now exists to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Australia. This strategy document brings together this experience, knowledge and...
Discussion paper
Consultation paper: development of the National Preventive Health Strategy
Preventive health is a key pillar of Australia’s long-term national health plan. This consultation paper sets out what the 10-year National Preventive Health Strategy will aim to achieve and conceptually how this might be done.
Report
National Partnership on Essential Vaccines: performance report 2018–19
This report provides an assessment of state and territory performance against the performance benchmarks outlined in the National Partnership on Essential Vaccines, for the assessment period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019. The report shows that 3 jurisdictions met all 5 benchmarks, with the...
Policy report
Better than cure: injury prevention policy
Although the United Kingdom has been a world leader in injury prevention policy, austerity and a lack of strategy have hampered further improvement. This report argues that the goal of injury prevention policy should not be to engender a risk-averse society, but quite the opposite...
Report
Prevention in the age of information: public education for better health
Tackling preventative illness must remain a top priority for the government in the 2020s. This report argues that the UK government must deliver a paradigm shift in prevention policy from interventions that ‘blame and punish’ to those that ‘empathise and assist.’ The aim of prevention...
Strategy
A new prescription: preparing for a healthcare transformation
Australia needs a new prescription for healthcare – a focus on prevention and wellness, enabled by technology. To help meet this challenge, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) has drawn on expertise from across the nation to prepare this map for step-change.
Report
Australia's health tracker 2019
Australia’s Health Tracker 2019 continues the work of a national collaboration of public health and chronic disease organisations and experts that began in 2015 and produced health targets to support, guide and track progress towards a substantial change in the health of our nation. This...
Report
Hotspots of potentially preventable hospital admissions
This is the second edition of a bitesize Health Performance Council report pinpointing potential health inequalities by analysing South Australian public hospital data, looking for hospitalisations that are potentially preventable, variation by where people live in the state, and opportunities to improve.