... cancer and transport accidents have also improved markedly. “There is now much better information in the community about health,and Australia’s network of health services has continued to improve,providing prevention, early intervention and better treatment of disease,”Dr Allbon said. Australian...

... of health, told the symposium. So the health authority can now analyze the situation daily and quickly inform the public of any outbreaks, Wang said. However, more than 57 percent of the country’s township hospitals are still not plugged into the network, which shows that the system is nowhere near...

... understand what is wrong with them; understand what particular tests and treatments involve and what their outcomes might be; contribute in a more informed way to discussions or decisions about their care; care appropriately for themselves and their families; know when to seek...

...Alan Gillies; John Howard Purpose Aims to describe the growing importance of information and its governance within public services. The paper starts by considering how scandals in three national public health systems have focused public attention on information issues. It describes a theoretical...

...Jo Lamb-White Edited by Jo Lamb-White World Health Organization Towards Age-Friendly Primary Health Care Keywords: Primary care, Health and medicine, Qualitative research,Elder care, Information, Training More than one billion people will be over 60 years old...

...Rhidian A. Hughes; Anu Sinha; Fiona Aspinal; Maria Dunckley; Julia Addington‐Hall; Irene J. Higginson Clinical outcome measures are used in clinical audit to monitor the quality of care provided to patients. As information technology (IT) is increasingly being integrated into the delivery of health...

... The site reviewed in this issue is http://www.aihw.gov.au/ which is the Website of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). AIHW is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information. The agency's mission is to improve the health and wellbeing...

...Michel Perreault; Theodora E. Katerelos; Stéphane Sabourin; Pierre Leichner; Julie Desmarais The purpose of this study is to verify whether information on services would appear as a distinct dimension of satisfaction in a multidimensional scale. Data collection was performed in two phases: 263...

...John MacKeith An approach to informing the public is described together with an analysis of contacts by the public with a Community Health Council. It is suggested that perhaps District Health Authorities and Family Practitioner Services Authorities should collaborate to provide a joint service...