A butterfly soars to freedom - a journey from illness to empowerment
Category: The Australian Health Consumer

A consumers' perspective on quality issues in the health system
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Russell McGowan   2004-05, Issue 1  Pages: 2
Governments will need to avoid knee-jerk reactions to reports of adverse events in their hospitals, and to ensure that any enhanced safety standards are well integrated into robust and sustainable quality improvement frameworks. Informed health care consumers have a vital role to play on behalf of their communities in making sure this happens.
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A Duty to Care?
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Rebecca Coghlan   2002, Issue 1  Pages: 3
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A Guide for Community Organisations Running Health Workshops with Consumers
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   May 2003  Pages: 48
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A Guide for Consumers Doing Health Research
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   May 2001  Pages: 121
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the quality of Australian healthcare services
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Russell McGowan   2005-06, Issue 1  Pages: 2
Patients need more say in improving healthcare safety and quality.
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A Mature Network Approach to Engaging with Health Consumers
Category: Presentation/Speech
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   November 2006  Pages: 14
Diane Walsh, CHF Governing Committee member, presented at the General Practice Network Forum in 2006 'A mature network approach to engaging with health consumers', and focussed on the CHF model for community engagements with health consumers.
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A Model Framework for Consumer and Community Participation in Health and Medical Research
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia and National Health and Medical Research Council   December 2004 
The Consumer and Community Participation kit is a collaborative effort between the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, researchers and consumer and community groups. The kit contains two publications that together will assist researchers, research organisations and consumer and community groups participate in the research process. The Model for Consumer Participation in Health and Medical Research provides a framework for researchers and the Resource Pack for Consumer and Community Participation in Health and Medical Research assists consumer and community organisations.
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A new national consumer voice pushes for reform of maternity services: The Maternity Coalition
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Barbara Vernon   2002-03, Issue 3  Pages: 4
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A step in the right direction - Consumers' Health Forum
Category: Media Release
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   9 May 2007  Pages: 1
The 2007 Federal Budget is a step in the right direction for people with chronic illness, according to CHF.
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Aboriginal male health - a personal view of the problems and challenges
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Keith Williams   2004-05, Issue 1  Pages: 2
This article is a result of my personal experiences in almost 30 years in the Northern Territory. I have discussed it with two senior elders (one my 'brother' and the other my 'grandfather'), who know me well enough to tell me when they consider what I am saying is wrong, and also with some younger, more 'liberated' men. I amended it accordingly, so it is pretty close to reality.
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Aboriginal Peoples Carry the Major Burden of Chronic Disease
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Puggy Hunter   Summer 2001  Pages: 1
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Accreditation Needs Consumer Input
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Betty Johnson   2002, Issue 2  Pages: 2
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Accreditation Reform - Mostly harmless?
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Russell McGowan   October 2007  Pages: 2
This article discusses accreditation in the context of eight groups of reforms around accreditation being proposed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
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Accredited Occupational Therapists program
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Mahtab Minai   2002-03, Issue 3  Pages: 2
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Achieving Good Practice in Consumer Representation - Response to the Review of the Consumers' Health Forum Consumer Representatives Program
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   September 2002  Pages: 50
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ACHS Accreditation - Improving Quality and Safety of Health Care
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Marjorie Pawsey   2002, Issue 1  Pages: 3
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Advanced care planning: rights and responsibilities
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Colleen M Cartwright   2005-06, Issue 2  Pages: 2
Advanced Care Planning (ACP) allows patients to record their wishes for treatment they would or would not want if, at some future time, they are no longer competent.
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Affordable access to painkillers
Category: Submission
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   December 2003  Pages: 1
Letter to Parliamentary Secretary, Trish Worth, regarding GST exemption on painkillers.
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Albany E-health Consumer Discussion Session
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers Health Forum of Australia   May 2008  Pages: 5
CHF and the Arthritis Foundation of WA held a free e-health consumer discussion session in Albany on Thursday 1 May 2008.
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Alice Springs E-health Consumer Discussion Session Report
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   June 2007  Pages: 4
CHF and the Health Consumers Voice NT held an e-health consumer discussion session in Alice Springs on Wednesday 6 June 2007.
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Amanda Bresnan, CHF EHR Presentation, Sydney 28 June 2005
Category: Presentation/Speech
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   June 2005  Pages: 16
Presentation by CHF at the 8th Annual Electronic Health and Electronic Health Records IIR Congress in Sydney on 28 June 2005.
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An Amazing Life: Chris Silagy, 1960 - 2001
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Hilda Bastian   2002, Issue 1  Pages: 1
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Animal to human transplantation (Xenotransplantation) research in Australia - Second round of public consultation
Category: Submission
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   March 2004  Pages: 2
CHF's response to the National Health & Medical Research Council's second round of public consultations on animal to human transplantation (Xenotransplantation).
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Annual Report of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia 2001-2002
Category: CHF Governance
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   2002  Pages: 33
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Annual Report of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia 2002-2003
Category: CHF Governance
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   2003  Pages: 51
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Annual Report of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia 2003-2004
Category: CHF Governance
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   2004  Pages: 44
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Annual Report of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia 2004-2005
Category: CHF Governance
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   October 2005  Pages: 46
Provides information relating to what CHF does, its Governance and Management, Members and the Financial Report for the year ending 30 June 2005.
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Annual Report of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia 2005-06
Category: CHF Governance
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   October 2006  Pages: 45
Provides information relating to what CHF does, its Governance and Management, Members and the Financial Report for the year ending 30 June 2006.
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Are our food guidelines culturally appropriate
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Danielle Gallegos   2004-05, Issue 2  Pages: 2
Given the cultural diversity of Australia, are our food guidelines culturally appropriate? Australian food guides have taken the place of what was once used to guide eating - tradition, commonsense and religion.
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Assessing Health Information on the Internet
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Helen Hopkins and Sarah Fogg   2002, Issue 2  Pages: 3
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August 2005 - Electronic Health Records Project Planning Day
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   November 2005  Pages: 6
CHF held an Electronic Health Records Project Planning Day on 4 August 2005.
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Australia 2020 Summit Submission
Category: Submission
Author/Source: Consumers Health Forum of Australia   April 2008  Pages: 2
The CHF submission to the health topic at the Australia 2020 Summit in April 2008.
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Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights
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Author/Source: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care   July 2008  Pages: 1
Australian Health Ministers have endorsed the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care in consultation with consumers and other stakeholders.
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Australian Health Care Agreements: Report from consumer representatives on the AHCA Reference Groups.
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum (CHF)   September 2002  Pages: 7
Report from the consumer nominees on the Australian Health Care Agreements Reference Groups.
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Australian Health Ethics Committee
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Author/Source: Sharon Caris   April 2008  Pages: 2
As scientific research expands its horizons, the ethical challenges are wide ranging and complex for all stakeholders,particularly where research involves people. The Australian Health Ethics Committee has an important role to guide research to protect individuals and the greater populace.
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Australian Health Policy Reform – Big Bang or Remodel by Stealth
Category: Presentation/Speech
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   September 2005  Pages: 12
CHF Executive Committee member, Diane Walsh, presented a consumer perspective on a panel, Australian Health Policy Reform – Big Bang or Remodel by Stealth, at the Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations (ARCHI) Conference in Adelaide on
1 September 2005. Diane gave an overview of where consumers are contributing to health care reform in CHF’s three priority areas at present.
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Australian young people and medicines
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Jan Donovan   2004-05, Issue 3  Pages: 2
Four percent of the calls to the Medicines Line of the National Prescribing Service are from young people (aged 15–24 years), many about drug interactions. Young people need to know they can ask about medication use.
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Avoidable Hospitalisations - A national map of who is affected
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: John Glover   April 2007  Pages: 2
A new report shows that almost 9% of total hospital admissions are for chronic conditions and are more prevalent with men, the elderly and those in disadvantaged situations.
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Basic inequalities: Poverty, poor food and poor health
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Sandra Lilburn   2004-05, Issue 2  Pages: 2
Those who experience social and health disadvantages are at a high risk of experiencing further health disadvantages by virtue of their reduced capacity to access the basic ingredients of a healthy life.
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Because it's personal: what good advocacy can achieve, and how
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Peter Canavan   2003-04, Issue 1  Pages: 4
Peter Canavan was the guest speaker at CHF's Continuing Representatives Training in May 2003. This is the text of his talk on the success of the HIV/ IDS consumer advocacy movement and what has been effective in the HIV/AIDS community sector response.
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Being in control: older people and their medicines
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Judith Skinner   2002-03, Issue 3  Pages: 3
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Bendigo E-health Consumer Discussion Session Report
Category: Report
Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   March 2007  Pages: 6
CHF, the Chronic Illness Alliance and the Country Women's Association of Victoria - Bendigo Group held an e-health consumer discussion session in Bendigo on Wednesday 14 March 2007.
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Best Practice Principles for Consumer Participation in the Development, Trialling and Implementation of HealthConnect
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Author/Source: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia   December 2004  Pages: 2
A set of best practice principles for consumer participation in the development, trialling and implementation of HealthConnect, were developed from a CHF workshop held in October 2004 for consumer representatives involved with electronic health records.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place - the Costs of Chronic Illness and Poverty
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Fiona Tito   Winter 2001  Pages: 2
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Book Review - 101 things your GP would tell you if only there was time
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Lindel Barker-Revell   October 2007  Pages: 1
This book is about health, your relationship to your own health and your relationship with your GP, and is recommended to anyone who is looking for a GP as it is easy to understand and guides the reader through the main points.
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Book Review - Australian Drug Guide 7th edition
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Jan Donovan   AHC 2005-06, Issue 3  Pages: 1
The reviewer finds this is a useful reference book offering concise explanations about medicines for more than 600 drugs.
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Book review - Caring for the aged
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Sheila Rimmer AM   2004-05, Issue 1  Pages: 1
This excellent, readable and realistically priced paperback volume is published as part of The Australian Women's Weekly Health Series. Obviously the publishers of a very long-established and popular magazine for women have realised that many younger readers are caring for elderly parents and those with disabilities.
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Book Review - Compassionate Cities: Public health and end-of-life care
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Amy Zelmer   2005-06, Issue 2  Pages: 1
Review of a book that explores end-of-life health care issues.
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Book Review - Depression: The way out of your prison
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Robert Beverley   2005-06, Issue 1  Pages: 1
A book recommended as a challenge and potentially of great help to people living with depression, carers and mental health counsellors.
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Book review - Endometriosis and other pelvic pain
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Julie Armfield   2004-05, Issue 3  Pages: 1
The reviewer finds 'Endometriosis and Other Pelvic Pain' by Dr Susan Evans, Jane Marsh RN and Dr Margaret Taylor an important book for women with endometriosis. It is an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand guide.
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Book Review - Finding Ben - a long journey through the maze of autism
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Clare Colman   2003-04, Issue 3  Pages: 2
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Book review - French Women Don't Get Fat
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Jan Finley   2004-05, Issue 2  Pages: 1
Review finds advice practical, not new but strongly marketed.
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Book review - Heart Health: What every woman should know
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Geoff Spitzkowsky   2004-05, Issue 2  Pages: 1
Leads readers through the architecture of the heart, risk factors that we can control and outcomes of ignoring these risks.
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Book Review - Immaculate Conceptions: Thoughts on babies, breeding and boundaries
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Melanie Cantwell   2005-06, Issue 2  Pages: 1
Review of a book that covers the breadth of currently possible options for people wanting a child.
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Book Review - Making decisons about tests and treatments: Principles for better communication between healthcare consumers and healthcare professionals
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Ann Revell   April 2007  Pages: 2
Publication developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
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Book Review - Remember Me, Mrs V
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Sheila Rimmer AM   October 2007  Pages: 1
This book offers information, support and inspiration for carers of those suffering from dementia and their friends and relations.
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Book Review - Response Ability: Environment, health and everyday transcendence
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Neville Millen   April 2007  Pages: 2
Frank Fisher's book presents a life's work; a body of professional scientific writings and a host of activist essays, letters and comments.
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Book Review - Selling Sickness: how drug companies are turning us all into patients
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Yvonne Solly   2005-06, Issue 1  Pages: 1
This book has prompted the reviewer to question the place of medicines in maintaining health and the latest medical facts and figures presented in the media as news.
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Book Review: Ageing at home: practical approaches to community care
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Sheila Rimmer   2003-04, Issue 1  Pages: 1
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Book Review: All About Anaesthesia (J Davies & R Westhorpe)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Shirley Shaw   Autumn 2001  Pages: 2
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Book Review: Blue Bottle Mystery - An Asperger Adventure (Kathy Hoopmann)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Anita Killick   Winter 2001  Pages: 2
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Book Review: Fit Kids - Keeping Our Kids Healthy, Fit and Motivated (Lisa Curry with Sports Dieticians Australia)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Bethne Hart   Autumn 2001  Pages: 2
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Book Review: Genetics in Society, 2001 (A Doble, K Barlow-Stewart, S Ferris, S Khor, P Stapelton, G Whittaker)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Christopher Newell   2002, Issue 1  Pages: 1
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Book Review: Health Reform in Australia and New Zealand (Abby L Bloom)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Christopher Newell   Summer 2001  Pages: 1
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Book Review: In the Consumer Interest: A Selected History of Consumer Affairs in Australia, 1945 - 2000 (Simon Smith, Ed.)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Christopher Newell   Winter 2001  Pages: 2
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Book Review: Learning and Attention Disorders - A Guide for Parents and Teachers (William Feldman)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Heather McLeod   Winter 2001  Pages: 2
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Book Review: Technologies and Health: Critical Compromises (J Daly, M Guillemin & S Hill, Eds)
Category: The Australian Health Consumer
Author/Source: Reviewed by Christopher Newell   2002, Issue 2  Pages: 2
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Book Review: The Essential U & I
Category: The Australian Health Consumer