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Many websites contain helpful information for Indigenous environmental health practice. Use of search engines such as Google www.google.com can often bring you the information you need or check the sites below under the groupings of Organisations, Information and Publications. The HealthInfoNet site at Edith Cowan University covers a wide range of issues relevant to Indigenous health, including the physical environment.
| Organisations
which may be useful |
|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission | |
| www.atsic.gov.au | |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | |
| www.abs.gov.au | |
| Australian Department of Health & Ageing | |
| www.health.gov.au | |
| Australian Institute of Environmental Health | |
| www.aieh.org.au | |
| Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | |
| www.aihw.gov.au | |
| Australasian Legal Information Institute | |
| www.austlii.edu.au | |
| Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, NT | |
| www.batchelor.edu.au | |
| Cairns TAFE, Qld | |
| www.tnqit.tafe.net | |
| Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) | |
| www.icat.org.au | |
| Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing | |
| www.health.gov.au | |
| enHealth Council | |
| enhealth.nphp.gov.au | |
| Environment Australia | |
| www.ea.gov.au | |
| Environmental Defender's Office | |
| www.edo.org.au | |
| Environmental Health Needs Co-ordinating Committe, WA | |
| www.dia.wa.gov.au/Forums/ehncc | |
| Environment Protection Agencies | |
| www.environment.act.gov.au | |
| www.epa.nsw.gov.au | |
| www.epa.qld.gov.au | |
| www.environment.sa.gov.au/epa | |
| www.epa.vic.gov.au | |
| www.environ.wa.gov.au | |
| www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au | |
| Health Departments - States and Territories | |
| www.health.act.gov.au/c/health | |
| www.health.nsw.gov.au | |
| www.nt.gov.au/health | |
| www.health.qld.gov.au | |
| www.health.sa.gov.au | |
| www.dhhs.tas.gov.au | |
| www.dhs.vic.gov.au | |
| www.health.wa.gov.au | |
| HealthInfoNet | |
| www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au | |
| IHANT - Indigenous Housing Authority of Northern Territory | |
| www.ihant.org.au | |
| Keep Australia Beautiful | |
| www.keepaustraliabeautiful.org.au | |
| KooriNet | |
| www.koori.usyd.edu.au | |
National Institute of Environmental Health Services (NIEHS) |
|
| www.niehs.nih.gov | |
| National Public Health Partnership (NPHP) | |
| www.nphp.gov.au | |
| National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (NOHSC) | |
| www.nohsc.gov.au | |
| NSW Department of Fair Trading | |
| www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au | |
| NSW Department of Local Government | |
| www.dlg.nsw.gov.au | |
| Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health | |
| www.health.gov.au/oatsih/cont.htm | |
| Public Health Association of Australia | |
| www.pha.org.au | |
| Pundulmurra College, South Hedland, WA | |
| www.hedland.edu.au | |
| Remote Area Development Group | |
| www.etc.murdoch.edu.au/radg.html | |
UWS Regional Integrated Monitoring Centre |
|
| www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/cste/sea/research/rimc | |
| Information
about: |
|
| Chemical Hazard Management in Children's Environment | |
| www.toolsforhealthyschools.org | |
| Community resources | |
| www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au | |
| Community funding, giving and help online | |
| www.ourcommunity.com.au | |
| Dog health and Big Lick | |
| www.amrric.org/main.html | |
| Food standards - safety, hygiene | |
| www.foodstandards.gov.au | |
| National
Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary
Chemicals |
|
| www.nra.gov.au | |
| National Toxics Network | |
| www.oztoxics.org/ntn | |
| Natural
Resources Information (CANRI) in NSW |
|
| www.canri.nsw.gov.au/activities | |
| Practical environmental health manual for remote communities | |
| http://appserv.menzies.edu.au/pls/portal30/docs/FOLDER/ | |
| Septic systems | |
| http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/Files/Information/ssguide.pdf | |
| Solid waste disposal | |
| http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/enviro/ and click on Waste Management and Pollution Control | |
Publications
on the web
The following links were active
when this page was created. If they no longer work, try the website of
the main organisation (address up to the first /). Publications are sometimes
moved around a site.
The Department of Health and Ageing has a site for documents on Environmental Health www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/environ.htm
A Better
Dog's Life: proceedings of a three-day conference on dog health
programs in Indigenous communities, August 2000
www.amrric.org/proceedings/BigLickProceedings.pdf
Accountability
in Indigenous Environmental Health Services - Australia 2002
enhealth.nphp.gov.au/council/pubs/pdf/accountability.pdf
Common Ground
and Common Sense: Community-based Environmental Health: an action handbook
www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/cste/sea/research/rimc/cehapsah
Environmental Health Risk
Perception in Australia 2000
www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/metadata/envrisk.htm
Environmental Health Needs Co-ordinating Committee of WA has numerous
publications available on:
www.dia.wa.gov.au/Forums/ehncc/publications.html
Grass Roots and
Common Ground: Guidelines for Community-based Environmental Health
Action www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/cste/sea/research/rimc/cehapsgr
Guidelines
for the Siting, Design and Management of Sold Waste Disposal Sites
in the Northern Territory, 2003 http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/enviro/
and click on Environmental Guidelines
Indigenous Environmental
Health monographs
enhealth.nphp.gov.au/council/pubs/ecpub.htm
National
Environmental Health Implementation Plan 2000 www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/envstrat_imp.pdf
National Environmental Health Strategy 1999
www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/envstrat.pdf
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