May 16, 2008
The Rural Health Education Foundation will welcome visitors to its exhibition booth at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare conference in Canberra on Tuesday June 24.
Australia’s Health 2008, a one-day conference, takes place at Canberra’s National Convention Centre on Constitution Avenue.
“We invite everyone interested in health issues …
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May 13, 2008
The Rural Health Education Foundation has produced more learning guides for selected programs, designed to augment the Foundation’s materials and increase useability of the television programs in a variety of health and medical education and training settings.
Expansion into text-based learning materials
Launching the additional learning guides, Foundation CEO Don Perlgut …
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May 9, 2008
In a first for the Rural Health Education Foundation, its new program about stroke treatment will be web-cast a week ahead of its first airing on satellite television in June.
Striking Back: Treatment and Management of Stroke will be presented as a live and interactive web-cast through the Foundation’s website …
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April 22, 2008
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing Senator, the Hon Jan McLucas will introduce the Foundation’s April 22nd special program on smoking pregnancy, entitled Smoking and Pregnancy: Womb to Breathe.
This program explores the health impact of smoking on pregnant women, their unborn child, and young children. …
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April 17, 2008
A new Rural Health Education Foundation television program airing on Tuesday 27th May, Rheumatic Heart Disease: All But Forgotten, raises the awareness of health professionals to population groups within Australia at risk of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD)….
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A new Rural Health Education Foundation television program airing on Tuesday 20th May, Balancing the Benefits: Asthma and Combination Therapy Update, outlines the best practice use of asthma combination therapies, including the appropriate selection of medications and different management regimens, in the context of latest research.
Balancing the Benefits …
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April 9, 2008
Drug Action Week 08, with the theme Alcohol is a Drug Too, spans June 22-28, when the ADCA will work particularly hard to bring the issues of harm from the misuse of alcohol and other drugs to light.
“The issue of binge drinking is certainly on the agenda and …
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April 7, 2008
The Rural Health Education Foundation is pleased to announce that it has several health education DVDs or videos available for free. The programs available free for bona fide health and medical professionals in Australia are:
Another Shade of Blue - Depression in Older Australians Available Now - program funded …
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April 2, 2008
Ms Sabina Knight, one of the Rural Health Education Foundation’s Board of Directors, will participate in the Australia 2020 Summit, which takes place in Canberra on April 19th and 20th, 2008, in the long-term national health strategy group. Sabina Knight is a remote area nurse and Senior …
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March 27, 2008
The Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, will introduce a new Rural Health Education Foundation program about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicare Health Checks and supporting Lifescripts tools.
The April 8 program, Across the Lifespan: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Checks and Lifescripts, …
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