What's new at our site - December 2005

 

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Season's greetings: Christmas closedown

Hi everyone

Staff of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet wish you a happy and safe festive season. We thank all who have helped and encouraged the development of the HealthInfoNet during 2005.

We would like to advise that Edith Cowan University - as well as the HealthInfoNet - closes down for the break between 22 December 2005 and 4 January 2006.

Happy holidays to you all.

Kind regards

Neil Thomson, Bronwyn Gee and the HealthInfoNet team

 

New Indigenous Road Safety Community of Practice

A new series of web pages have been created to support the development of the Indigenous Road Safety Community of Practice (view webpages). The aim is to bring together knowledge on Indigenous road safety, and to increase information-sharing among practitioners working in this area, in order to develop more effective and appropriate ways of reducing road trauma for Indigenous Australians. The Community of Practice was formally launched on 2 December 2005.

The road safety web pages include: a summary of road safety among Indigenous Australians; background information; information on policies and strategies, programs, projects and recommendations, lessons learned; resources; and publications, including a bibliography. They also include electronic services to support information sharing and networking among people who live in different locations and work for different organisations.

If you are working or studying in areas that deal with Indigenous road safety we invite you to become a member of the Road Safety Community of Practice and begin the information-sharing process (view Community of Practice information). For further information about joining the Road Safety Community or other queries please email Ineke Krom: i.krom@ecu.edu.au

New Western Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network

The Western Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network (WAIHPN), which includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous people involved in Indigenous health promotion, aims to facilitate the sharing of relevant information and knowledge with the ultimate goal of improving the health of Indigenous Western Australians. The idea of establishing a formal network for people involved in Indigenous health promotion emerged from discussions at a workshop that preceded the Aboriginal Health, 2004 conference, held in Perth in July 2004.

Based on the 'community of practice' model, we have developed a small website to support information sharing among members of the Network. The development of the website has been made possible with funds provided by the Western Australian Department of Health's Office of Aboriginal Health.

WAIHPN web pages include: background information; information on policies and strategies, programs, projects and recommendations, lessons learned; resources; and publications, including a bibliography. Details of organisations involved in Indigenous health promotion in Western Australia and of relevant news and events are also included. Electronic services are provided to support information sharing and networking among people who live in different locations and work for different organisations.

If you are working or studying in areas that deal with Indigenous health promotion in Western Australia, you are invited to become a member of the Western Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network (view Western Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network website) and begin the information-sharing process.

 

 

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Last updated: 9 December 2005