National Online Mental Health Resources
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IMPORTANT Sites In Oz!
- Contacting the Commonwealth - To help keep you in contact, you'll find collected here, links to sites with names, postal and electronic mail addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers and/or other directories with contact information on all the known Commonwealth Government Department and Agency Web servers. The Government On Line Directory (GOLD) provides an up to date listing of Federal government departments, agencies and executive personnel.
- AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION - CODE OF ETHICS - JULY 1992 - Guidelines and standards of care between doctor and patient.
- Australian Mental Health Rights - Under Commonwealth law, these are the rights that all mental health service providers are bound to respect. If they don't, file a formal complaint and begin legal action.
- ATMHN Information for Services -- Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network -- Excellent source for information on a number of services and mental illnesses translated into a multitude of different languages.
- Pharmacy Web Australia -- The Australian Pharmacy Internet Directory -- Contains drug information, pharmacy links, other resources.
- MedicineNet (TM) -- A free medical reference for finding drug information and some interesting looking data about body rythyms..
- Some Facts About Depression -- Available in Adobe Acrobat format in the following languages: Chinese, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, Croatian and Spanish.
- Health Communication Network -- A great guide and resource for mental health services and information in Australia. A good place to start general research on a variety of health topics including mental health. There are a couple of search engines here that are worth getting familiar with.
- Mental Health for Multicultural Australia: The Current Situation - A concise overview of the current situation faced by the 1.8 million multicultural citizens of Australia. Poor services and inadequate training of health professionals are explored.
- The Australian National Mental Health Report (Overview) 1995 -- This report provides recurrent expenditure and activity details for specialised mental health services.
- HealthNet Australia -- This is the parent site for the link below and is well worth the time it takes to take a look at it.
- The Centre for Ethnic Health (CEH) -- A Victorian Government initiative established to assist the health sector meet the needs of Australians of non-English speaking backgrounds. The Centre undertakes activities which maximise the health outcomes and quality of life for people from diverse backgrounds.
- Commonwealth Disability Strategy -- A ten year framework for Commonwealth departments and agencies - December 1994. Of interest are reviews of government policy regarding mental health such as this one. Check it out when you have extra time on your hands.
- Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services -- This is the Australian government hard at work. It pays to keep up on what the government is doing in terms of healthcare, after all, your future may depend on it.
- Health Communication Network -- A great guide and resource for mental health services and information in Australia. A good place to start general research on a variety of health topics including mental health. There are a couple of search engines here that are worth getting familiar with.
- The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 -- This Act came into effect in March 1993 and remains unchanged to my knowledge. A very important document for you to be familiar with as an Australian healthcare recipient.
- Australian Institute For Suicide Research & Prevention -- There's a lot of good advice on this site so don't miss giving it a once over.
- Australian
Department of Social Security -- Income security for people with disabilities and the sick. The Objective is to see that people with disabilities, their carers and those temporarily incapacitated for work have adequate levels of income and maximum opportunities to participate in the economic and social life of the community.
- Australia.Therapeutic Goods Administration. TGA -- The one good feature about this site is its listing of various drug bulletins on adverse reactions, reports on therapeutic devices and accelerated drug listing bulletin.
- Bill of Rights -- Guess what? Australia doesn't have a Bill of Rights and what that means is you have no guarantees of constitutional protection for free speech. If you don't know why this might be important for you, then read this paper and find out.
- Your Rights as an Australian Student With a Disability -- From Flinders University in Adelaide comes this timely excerpt out of their student handbook. All Australian universities are bound by the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA), and therefore have a responsibility to ensure that it promotes an environment which is free from unlawful discrimination.
Online Support Groups In Australia
Other Relevant Online Email Lists In Australia
- OZMAD DISCUSSION LIST -- OZMAD is an information dissemination and discussion list for people interested in the Australian mental health consumer/survivor movement. The focus of the list is Australia-specific--Australian events, issues and
legislation. To subscribe to OZMAD, send a message saying:
subscribe OZMAD [your name]
to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
- OZADVOCACY DISCUSSION LIST -- To subscribe to OZADVOCACY, send the command:
subscribe OZADVOCACY [your name]
to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
OZMAD is part of the international MADNESS family of lists, while OZADVOCACY is an affiliate, though not officially part of that organisation.
For more information, see the MadNation site.
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