The Rural Health Education Foundation will have an exhibition booth at the Australia’s Health 2006 conference in Canberra on Wednesday 21 June 2006.
Foundation CEO Don Perlgut invited conference attendees to visit the booth. “It’s our first exhibit at a Canberra conference in more than five years, so we’d love to …
read more »Online video webstreams and audio podcasts are now available for the Rural Health Education Foundation’s updated Aboriginal programs Keep Safe, Start Strong and Grow Strong.
DVDs and VHS videos of the programs can also be purchased via the Foundation’s online DVD & video order form.
The programs, all broadcast by the Foundation …
read more »Rural Health Education Foundation CEO Don Perlgut launched the upcoming Aboriginal infant care program, Start Strong, at the inaugural Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Infant & Perinatal Conference on Saturday 6 May.
Mr Perlgut screened the Start Strong program to 150 Aboriginal child health workers, midwives and Aboriginal health care specialists …
read more »** Updated 12 June **
Half-hour versions of three recent Foundation documentary-style programs on Aboriginal health issues, all with a new focus on community involvement, were broadcast by the Foundation on its satellite network on Tuesday evening 30th May, and repeated on Friday daytime, June 2nd.
The programs are all presented by …
read more »The Rural Health Education Foundation has released its preliminary schedule of accredited satellite television broadcasts for the period January to June 2007.
Over this period there are at least 12 programs that can be viewed on release usually on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, with repeats during Friday daytime.
After the initial broadcast, …
read more »The Rural Health Education Foundation has joined Philanthropy Australia, the national membership body for the philanthropic sector with more than 150 trusts, foundations and corporate giving programs uniting to advance philanthropy and improve community wellbeing in Australia (see list of members).
“Improving the health and wellbeing of rural and remote Australians …
read more »A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) puts the spotlight on the issue of incontinence, its associated costs, and the impact on carers.
According to the report, Australian incontinence data analysis and development, an estimated 545,000 people, or 2.8% of the Australian adult population, experience severe …
read more »A new study has found the financial burden of treating diabetes for Australians will dramatically escalate unless more is done to prevent type 2 diabetes.
The study by Dr Wendy Davis and colleagues from the University of Western Australia is in the March edition of the Internal Medicine Journal (IMJ), the …
read more »A recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) study has found a 20% increase in obesity among Australian adults.
According to results from the 2004-05 Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health Survey, approximately 20% more Australian adults were overweight or obese in 2004-5 than in 2001.
Over the last ten years the proportion …
read more »Audio podcasts of the most recent Rural Health Education Foundation programs are now available for download onto your computer - ready for listening at any time.
After downloading the mp3 audio file of a specific program, such as Burn Injury: Rural Perspectives, you can listen to the program file on your …
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