Useful Links

For information on current best practice, conferences, grants, evidence based practice, reports and a whole lot more.

INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH
The Institute aims to conduct high quality research, apply research findings to improve the health of children, adolescents and families. It also aims to teach the next generation of health researchers and to be an advocate for research and for children. Over the last ten years Institute staff has produced over 1300 publications, many of these in peer reviewed journals. Go to link www.ichr.uwa.edu.au
         
CURTIN UNIVERSITY www.curtin.edu.au  including the research centres:

THE CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL HEALTH is an innovative research centre dedicated to improving children’s lives. It brings together researchers from different disciplines to integrate new knowledge on what influences infant, child and adolescent development and how families, schools, communities and society can support this development. Go to link  cdh.curtin.edu.au

THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING aims to support the changing needs of a growing ageing population by providing research, consultatancy and education programmes that can assist an increasing number of older people to live healthy independent lives. Go to link  cra.curtin.edu.au

THE CENTRE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH has achieved national and international recognition for its work in school and community-based intervention research, especially in the areas of injury control, drug use and mental health. Go to link wachpr.curtin.edu.au

W.A. CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE BASED NURSING AND MIDWIFERY is a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute and undertakes a range of practice-oriented research activities to improve the effectiveness of nursing practice and health care outcomes, with a particular focus on the health of women and children. Go to link www.wacebnm.curtin.edu.au

THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE
The formation of the Institute arose from the recognition of a need for a collaborative approach to the evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigorous research and the translation, transfer and utilisation of the "best available" evidence into health care practice. Go to link www.joannabriggs.edu.au

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSES WA (CHNWA)
CHNWA's objectives are to uphold, protect and advance the interests of Community Health Nurses. Go to link www.chnwa.org.au

AUSTRALIAN CONFEDERATION OF PAEDIATRIC AND CHILD HEALTH NURSES is committed to promotion of excellence in the health care of children and young people and provides access to the Journal of Neonatal, Paediatric and Child Health Nursing. Go to link  www.acpchn.org.au  

EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   CHILD HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH UNIT (CHPRU)
For more information on the CHPRU s research involving bullying, injury prevention, road safety, drug use and smoking prevention education and physical activity and nutrition go to link chpru.ecu.edu.au/fsaf/

YOUR ZONE. The North Metropolitan Area Health Services, Population Health have a website with a lot of information regarding health promotion, services and resources in the North Metropolitan area. Go to link www.yourzone.com.au

THE NATIONAL INVESTMENT FOR THE EARLY YEARS (NIFTEY) website emerged from the National Initiative for the early years and recognises the importance of promoting optimum family and community experiences for young children during the earliest years of childhood (particularly the first three years). You can register your email address with them and they will send you current, national and international information on a wide variety of early childhood issues. Go to link www.niftey.cyh.com

KIDS HEALTH is the largest and one of the most visited sites on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Go to link www.kidshealth.org

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH. The Women’s and Children’s Hospital plays a leading role in improving the health of women and children in Adelaide, South Australia and throughout the world. Go to link www.wch.sa.gov.au

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH : THE SOLID FACTS. Go to link www.health.vic.gov.au/healthpromotion/foundations/determinants.htm

HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF VICTORIA    www.health.vic.gov.au

ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, MELBOURNE is internationally recognised as a leading centre for research and education. The website has an enormous amount of information on best practice. Go to link  www.rch.org.au

MURDOCH CHILDREN’S RESEARCH INSTITUTE is linked to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. The institute has 6 main research themes that bring together the best skills and knowledge in cross-disciplinary teams spanning laboratory, clinical and public health research - working collaboratively to solve broader children's health problems. The theme directors are leaders in their field. Go to link www.mcri.edu.au

NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NHMRC) is responsible for raising the standard of individual and public health. It does this by fostering health and medical research and training and by monitoring ethical issues relating to health throughout Australia. Go to link www.nhmrc.gov.au
 
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH  (ARACY) was founded by a group of eminent experts and organisations in reaction to increasingly worrying trends in the wellbeing of Australia’s young people. These experts saw the need to work together in new, collaborative ways in order to find solutions to the complex problems affecting our children and young people. Go to link  www.aracy.org.au

HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF W.A   www.health.wa.gov.au
 
NURSE’S BOARD OF WA www.nbwa.org.au