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, and information about their use in health care .

Reviewed March 2010

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Title:   Media release. New allied health web-based training package launched
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Education and training for allied health workers is now just a mouse click away after a new web-based training package was launched.
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Media release. More assistance to aid emotional recovery after bushfires
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government will provide further resources to aid the emotional and psychological recovery of bushfire affected families and communities in Victoria.
Date:   Apr 2009
Title:   Virtual reality training for surgical trainees in laparoscopic surgery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Surgical training has traditionally been one of apprenticeship, where the surgical trainee learns to perform the surgery under the supervision of a trained surgeon. This is costly, time consuming, and is of variable effectiveness. Training using virtual...
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Smoking in movies: countering the public health impact
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Australia
Description:   Position statement on smoking in movies and its public health impact
Date:   Dec 2007
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:   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:   Aug 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:   Parents with babies in a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) often feel stressed and depressed.  These emotions can make it difficult for the parents to remember or fully understand the details of their conversations with doctors.  The doctor...
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, changes in diet or exerci...
Date:   Dec 2003
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
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