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 Web resources

Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) - provides research projects information, publications, resources, a library, links and other information. 

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) - provides information on ageing, aged care, etc. as well as downloadable publications.

Australian Medical Association (AMA) - provides links to related organisations.

Family Court of Australia - provides information about the Court's services, costs &  procedures as well as a range of brochures & booklets.

HealthInsite: A-Z Index - provides easy access to quality information about human health including First Aid, Women's Health & Men's Health.

Infoxchange Australia - provides news on Health & Primary Care.

James Cook University - provides resource links for Nursing Science.

National Child Protection Clearinghouse (NCPC) - collects, produces & distributes information/resources, conducts research & offers specialist advice on the latest developments in child abuse prevention, child protection and associated violence.

NSW Health Clinical Information Access Program (CIAP) - provides clinical information & resources to support evidence-based practice at the point of care.

PsychCentral: Resources - a mental health social network providing an extensive annotated directory of online resources.

NSW Government: Health - access information about health conditions, groups & organisations, healthy living as well as many links.

NursingCenter - a portal to continuing education activities and thousands of clinical articles from 50 leading nursing journals.

Royal Life Saving Society of Australia (RLSSA) - provides a range of information & resources as well as details of programs and activities.

St John Ambulance Australia - provides information about training & kits as well as downloadable quick reference guides and details for purchasing publications.

TAFE Studylinks: Aged Care - access a wide range of websites.

TAFE Studylinks: First Aid - access a wide range of websites.

TAFE Studylinks: Nursing - access a wide range of websites.

The Health Report: Past Programs - ABC Radio National information source with an extensive transcript archive of past programs.

World Health Organisation (WHO) - the United Nations specialised agency provides a wide range of information, publications, research tools and links.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

For this program area the following forums may be of interest:

• allnurses.com - provides an RSS feed, forums & chat services
• Yahoo Health - directory of message boards and discussion groups

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 20 April, 2007

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