During September 2010 the 14th Annual Chronic Diseases Network Conference was held in Darwin. The theme was “Health Literacy: Opening Doors to Health and Wellbeing“, focusing on how important health literacy is to treating and preventing chronic conditions.
Low health literacy can be the cause of poor health status and management of chronic conditions.
I couldn’t attend last September so I was delighted to find many of the presentations on the website available for down load. I have placed three of the keynote addresses below. The Department of Health and Families has more presentations to view at the Chronic Disease Network conference page
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- NPY Womens Council hold a dialysis forum in APY lands at 30th birthday celebrations. No men, no local health service? http://bit.ly/aiPX4z
- Our black health gap: less spent on primary aboriginal health http://bit.ly/b03ls1
- GPs can Close the Gap through better ID of Indigenous patients to improve their access to Medicare benefits http://bit.ly/dhTc09
- Lowitja Institute & ANU have launched a new publication with recommendations on how GPs can help Close the Gap http://bit.ly/8YL7WX
- 15,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with low vision and 3,300 who are blind http://bit.ly/d8T9HM
- THE NT’s most remote bush health clinic has received a stamp of approval in AGPAL accreditation http://bit.ly/d9C1IX
- Community groups organised a free bus to transfer Indigenous to regular medical appointments http://bit.ly/9RwoBx
- VICTORIAN Aboriginals are missing out on crucial interventions to manage heart disease or discharge early from hospital http://bit.ly/daozdG
- Nation’s psychiatrists have reignited call for a constitutional amendment to recognise Australia’s indigenous people http://bit.ly/cVv8Mf
- More than three tonnes of kava has been seized in remote Arnhem Land communities in the past 18 months. http://bit.ly/aACxEk
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