Multimedia Resources

Follow the links below to find multimedia resources, such as compact discs, CD-ROMs, video and audio cassettes, pictures and graphs, on a variety of health issues.

Updated September 2007

Printer friendly page

Related HealthInsite Topics
Interactive Health Activities
HealthInsite Topic Page
Links to quizzes, calculators and other interactive health related activities.
12 Resources Found
Results 1 to 12 displayed.
Title:   Media release. New dementia resource to improve quality of life
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Minister for Ageing Mrs Justine Elliot today released a new dementia resource to help improve the quality of life of people living with dementia and assist those who care for them.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   NCMS education and public awareness initiatives
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Overview of the National Continence Management Strategies Education and Public Awareness Initiatives
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Informed consent is important for people who are thinking about participating in a clinical trial. Information for informed consent could be presented on the Internet, DVD, video cassette or by other means. ...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Many people find it hard to remember medical consultations. Providing a record of the conversation may help. The review of trials examined the effects of giving people with cancer audio recordings or written summaries of consultations. Most people found...
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Home and Community Care (HACC) Planning Regions
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The HACC Amending Agreement establishes HACC Planning Regions as the geographic basis for national planning and allocation of funding for the HACC Program.
Date:   Jan 2006
Title:   Louis Braille Audio
Publisher:   Vision Australia Foundation
Description:   Louis Braille Audio produces and distributes unabridged audio books of high quality to schools and libraries throughout the English speaking world.
Date:   Nov 2005
Title:   Media-based behavioural treatments for behavioural problems in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cognitive-behavioural interventions have been shown to be effective for reducing behavioural problems in children, but access to these treatments is limited by factors including the availability of therapists, time and expense. Providing the information...
Date:   Sep 2005
Title:   Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with chronic disease have multiple needs, including information about their illness and the various treatment options; social support; support with making decisions; and help with achieving behaviour change, for example, ch...
Date:   Aug 2005
Title:   Surgical versus non-surgical management of pleural empyema
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pleural empyema is a collection of pus between the lungs and the chest wall. Drainage is usually necessary unless antibiotics are started early enough. This review identified one trial comparing chest tube drainage combined with streptokinase (a drug th...
Date:   Jul 2005
Title:   Genetically modified organisms - trial locations
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The maps show locations of Current Field Trial Sites and sites subject to Post Harvest Monitoring. Sites under consideration for Confidential Commercial Information (CCI) status are listed but details of the full licence conditions may not available.
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Audio recordings of consultations with doctors for parents of critically sick babies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Family centred care is an important part of neonatal intensive care. Providing parents in NICU with audiotape recordings of their conversations with neonatologists could promote effective communication.
Title:   ARPANSA - Vehicle mounted gamma spectroscopic mapping system
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   The Health Physics and Technical Services Section at ARPANSA Melbourne have designed and constructed a vehicle-mounted gamma spectroscopy system for the mapping of radioactive contamination.
Date:   Sep 2002
Results 1 to 12 displayed.