Links
The following links have been organised to facilitate ease of access to the wide range of Indigenous health related information available on the Internet. If you know of a site that should be included here, or if you find any broken links please contact us.
Indigenous recruitment
General practice resources
- Communicare - computerised patient healthcare system
- Ministerial Reviews of General Practice
- National Divisions of General Practice
- NACCHO GP Network
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Journals
National
- Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
- Association for Australian Rural Nurses and Midwives Newsletter
- Australian Health Review - Journal of the Australian Healthcare Association (AHA)
- Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Australian Family Physician (AFP) - Journal of the RACGP
- Communicable Diseases Intelligence - publication of the AIDS/Communicable Diseases Branch, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care and the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia and New Zealand
- Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health ENews - A regular electronic newsletter for the CRCAH
- Healthview - publication of the Health Department of Western Australia
- Health Matters Newsletter - publication of the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia
- INFOKOORI - index of articles published in the Koori Mail and elsewhere
- New Doctor - Journal of the Doctors' Reform Society of Australia
- Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin
- NSW Public Health Bulletin - NSW Health publication
- Rural and Remote Health - The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice and Policy
- The Chronicle - Chronic Disease Bulletin
- The Journal of the Australian Institute of Environmental Health
- The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vascular Health Matters Bulletin
- VicHealth Letter - VicHealth publication
International
- Promotion and Education: International Journal for Health Promotion and Education - Journal of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
- World Health Organization - Online Information Sources
Libraries and databases
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages - The World Wide Web Virtual Library
- Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive - AIATSIS
- Black Words - an initiative of AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature
- Indigenous Australian Alcohol and Other drugs Database
- Indigenous Library Services - State Library of Queensland, Cairns
- Indigenous Resource Unit - John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
- Indigenous Services - State Library of South Australia
- National Library of Australia see also Mura Gadi: A new pathway to Internet resources
- Rural Health Research Register - School of rural health, Monash University
Medical search engines
- Medical World Search - to search major medical sites
- Medscape
- PubMed - to search MEDLINE and other related databases
Newsletters
- AHCSA News (Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia Inc.)
- Auseinetter
Publishers
Rural health resources
- Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN)
- Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN) - Indigenous Staff Network
- School of Rural Health - Monash University
- Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association (CARPA)
- National Rural Health Alliance
- Rural Doctor's Association (NSW)
Rural health training units
Education
Indigenous education
- Aboriginal Education, Training and Services Directorate - Education Department of Western Australia
- Aboriginal Education Enfield, South Australia
- Aboriginal Health Worker and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker National Competency Standards and Qualifications Review - Community Services and Health Training Australia (CSHTA) has been contracted to develop new national qualifications for Aboriginal Health Workers and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers.
- Aboriginal Independent Community Schools (WA)
- Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders Corporation Health Education Training (QLD)
- Aboriginal Studies Association
- Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (NT)
- Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership (QLD)
- Dharawal Education Centre - Currently under development
- Dhinawun Consultancy
- Djeetgun Kurnai Women's Aboriginal Corporation
- FNQ Indigenous Consortium for Social and Emotional Health and Well being Ltd. (QLD) - Currently under development
- Indigenous College of Education and Research - University of South Australia
- Indigenous Online Network - Currently under development
- Indigenous Rural Education, Mullebar - University of Melbourne
- Institute of Koorie Education - Deakin University
- Koori Center - University of Sydney
- Kumbari/ Ngurpai Lag - University of Southern Queensland
- Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre - Murdoch University
- Kurongkurl Katitjin - Edith Cowan University
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Website (NATSIEW)
- New South Wales Department of School Education, Aboriginal Education Policy
- Nunga IT - is a web design, health & literacy project for young Aboriginal People in South Australia between the ages of 12-19 years. The pages created by the young people are accessible via the schools button. - Currently under development
- Nura Gili - University of New South Wales
- Waardong - Murdoch University
- Population Health Project - conducted by Community Services and Health Training Australia (CSHTA), this project aims to construct a qualifications framework relevant to population health work. Population health workers covered by this project include: Indigenous environmental health workers; Aboriginal health promotion officers; Aboriginal community health workers.
- Roebourne Primary School
- The Koori Centre - University of Sydney
- The LIME network: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education - University of Melbourne
- Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Centre - University of Newcastle
- Victorian Aboriginal Education Association
- Wollotuka Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Centre - University of Newcastle
- Yuruga Enterprises
Universities and other tertiary institutions
- Australian National University (ACT)
- Batchelor Institute (NT)
- Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health (WA)
- Charles Sturt University (NSW)
- Indigenous Support Units - Charles Sturt University
- Curtin University of Technology (WA)
- Deakin University (VIC)
- Edith Cowan University (WA)
- James Cook University (QLD)
- Monash University (VIC)
- Murdoch University (WA)
- Swinburne University of Technology (VIC)
- University of Adelaide (SA)
- University of Melbourne (VIC)
- University of New South Wales (NSW)
- University of Newcastle (NSW)
- Wollotuka - Department of Aboriginal Studies
- Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Centre
- University of Queensland (QLD)
- University of South Australia (SA)
- University of Southern Queensland
- Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag - Higher Education Centre
- University of Sydney (NSW)
- University of Tasmania
- Riawunna - Centre for Aboriginal Education
- University of Wollongong (NSW)
- University of Western Australia (WA)
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Last updated: 15 August 2008
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