What's new at our site - April 2008

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Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin Vol 8 No 2

The HealthBulletin has been re-developed and launched by the HealthInfoNet as a new website www.healthbulletin.org.au. The April - June 2008 issue of the Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin is now 'in progress' and available online (view current issue). The purpose of the Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin is to provide access to information of relevance to Australian Indigenous health. Reflecting the wide range of our users - policy makers, service providers, researchers, students and the general community - the HealthBulletin attempts to keep people informed of current events of relevance, as well as information about recent research.

The new look HealthBulletin will continue to be published as four cumulative issues per year (the first issue each year commencing on 1 January, the second on 1 April, and so on).
New features include:
•       the home page now presents a contents list for each issue – a format used by many other journals. Being a cumulative online journal – with new material added to each issue as it becomes available – the HealthBulletin contents list will lengthen as new material is added.
•       a ‘Just in’ section has been added. Entries in this section are listed in the reverse order to which they were added to the HealthBulletin – that is, the item added most recently is listed first.
•       There is a new ‘Topics’ section that comprises a cumulative index by topic of all content published from the April-June 2008 issue (Volume 8, number 2) onwards. Content published in previous issues of the HealthBulletin will not be included, but can be searched for in the archives. Only topic areas for which content has been published are included in the index, but this will expand as new content is added to this and subsequent issues
•       An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed that keeps users informed of the latest content on the HealthBulletin, so that it’s not necessary to visit the site to find updates; and
•       A ‘search’ function has also been added, meaning that you’ll be able to locate items according to keyword.

As with all areas of our site, we welcome your assistance and contributions in making the Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin as useful as possible.The general categories used by the new HealthBulletin will remain the same as previous issues, so people still have the opportunity of publishing their work in a journal recognised in the Australian Government’s register of peer reviewed journals. Please let us know (view HealthInfoNet contact details) about events and information relating to sections of the HealthBulletin. If you would like to submit an article for inclusion in 'Original articles', 'Reviews' or 'Brief reports', please see the notes for contributors (view notes for contributors).

Health

Indigenous nutrition

We have recently developed an Indigenous nutrition web resource and yarning place - a ‘one-stop info-shop’ for people working, studying or interested in the nutritional health of Indigenous peoples. » view web resource

The web resource provides quality information and materials about how to promote the nutritional health of Indigenous peoples. We are still in the process of developing the review of the nutritional health of Indigenous peoples for this resource, but have decided to make available the information we have already gathered.

The web resource also supports an Indigenous nutrition yarning place by providing electronic services that encourage information sharing and collaboration among the full range of people working in health and related sectors. The yarning place is available online and membership is free. Anyone working, studying, or otherwise interested in promoting the nutritional health of Indigenous Australians is encouraged to join. » more information

 

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Last updated: 4 April, 2008