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Health and Wellbeing
HealthInsite's Health and Wellbeing area provides links to HealthInsite topic pages on issues that affect your health, such as fitness, nutrition, mental health and drugs, as well as information on health-related issues, such as health insurance, the health system, legal issues and biotechnology.
If your topic of interest isn't listed below, try searching for items using either the Quick Search option at the top of each HealthInsite page or the Advanced Search or A-Z Health Topics links on the left.
Reviewed September 2011
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Biotechnology and Genetic Techniques
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Links to information about biotechnology and genetic technology.
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Links to information on bioterrorism and biosecurity.
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Links to information about donating blood.
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Links to information on health issues that affect children, from babies and toddlers to young people. Includes childhood illnesses, accidents and injuries, obesity and support for children having problems.
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Links to information about clinical trials, including randomised controlled trials (RCTs).
Complementary and Alternative Therapies
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Links to information on alternative and complementary therapies, including links to specific topic pages on herbal medicine, Chinese traditional medicine, acupuncture, naturopathy and homoeopathy.
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Links to information on consumer participation in the development of health services and health decision making for individuals, groups and communities.
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Links to information about dental health.
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Links to information about the influence of diet on overweight.
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Links to information about social, recreational or habitual use of drugs and substances, including alcohol, tobacco, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine and heroin.
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Links to information on environmental health issues, including the health effects of pollution.
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Links to information on exercise, with links to specific topic pages on fitness, sport related injury, and drugs in sport.
Eye Health and Vision Impairment
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Links to information on eye health and common vision conditions, support services and information for carers.
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Links to information covering everything from the nutritional benefits of various foods to dietary related medical conditions, healthy eating quizzes and food safety issues.
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Links to information on foot care and foot conditions and diseases.
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Links to information on health insurance, insurance benefits and Medicare issues.
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
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Links to information on high blood pressure or hypertension.
How to Assess Health Information Online
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Provides lists of questions and suggestions to help assess the quality of information online.
Injuries and Injury Prevention
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Links to information on specific types of injuries, as well as information about how to prevent injuries and stay safe.
International Health Information
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Links to major international quality assessed health information gateways and websites covering a wide variety of topics.
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Describes how to search for information in languages other than English using HealthInsite´s search options.
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Links to information on health legal issues, with links to HealthInsite topic pages on regulatory and insurance issues and consumer rights.
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Links to information on the use of pharmaceutical or prescription drugs and medications.
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Links to information on men´s health issues.
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Links to information on mental health, mental illness, prevention, early intervention, management and mental health promotion, as well as mental health statistics, research and suicide prevention.
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Links to information on obesity and preventing obesity.
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Links to information on palliative care (the care of patients with serious illness to relieve pain), euthanasia, ´dying with dignity´ and hospice care.
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Links to information on physiotherapy and its use for particular conditions, including a link to the Physiotherapy Evidence Database.
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Links to information about safe sex, sexuality, sexual development, sex education, sexually transmitted diseases, family planning and fertility, sexual abuse and sex disorders.
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Links to information on health issues associated with smoking.
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Links to information on social isolation, shyness and loneliness.
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Links to information, research and statistics on suicide in Australia, as well as information on support groups.
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Links to information on travel health and safety.
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Links to information on women´s health.
