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Live Well Live Long

Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Abdominal obesity (waist size) and disease
Abortion
Accidents and injuries in adult s
Accidents and injuries in children
Adolescent health issues

Adolescent illicit substance use
Adolescent risk taking
Preventing unplanned teenage pregnancy
Safe sex messages for teenagers
Smoking - Adolescents
Teenage alcohol use
Teenagers going out - What they need to do /know

Age-related macula degeneration
Ageing well
Alcohol

Alcohol - Alcohol and the young
Alcohol - Dependence
Alcohol - Drinking alcohol in the presence of children
Alcohol - Drinking and driving
Alcohol - Harmful effects of alcohol
Alcohol - Recognizing problem alcohol consumption
Alcohol - Risk factors for problem alcohol consumption
Alcohol - Safe and problem drinking in Australia
Alcohol - Treating people with severe alcohol-use problems / alcohol dependence
Alcohol - What are the benefits of reducing excessive alcohol consumption?
Alcohol - What is a standard drink?
Alcohol use in Australia
Alcopops – The most common alcoholic drink consumed by teenage girls

Allergies in food
Amphetamines (Speed)
Anaphylactic reactions
Angina
Anorexia
Antioxidants and heart disease
Antioxidants - Supplements
Anxiety in adults
Anxiety in children
Anxiety in children – Prevention – Building resilience and self-confidence
Arteries
Assisted reproductive technology (ART)
Asthma in Australia - Prevention
Asthma prevention in infants
Australian illness

24 preventative health questions adults need to address
How much & what type of illness occurs in people aged 45 to 64 years
How much & what type of illness occurs in people over 65?
Preventable disease in Australia
Leading causes of disease in Australians according to age
What are the most common causes of illness in Australia?
What important illnesses are commonly overlooked in Australia?

Avulsed (dislodged) teeth

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Becoming pregnant
Blindness - See 'Visual loss’
Blood pressure - See Hypertension
BMI - a way of measuring obesity
Body mass index (BMI) - a way of measuring obesity
Bowel cancer

Bowel cancer - Genetic testing for inherited causes of bowel cancer
Bowel cancer - Recognising possible bowel caner symptoms
Bowel cancer - Reducing risk factors
Bowel cancer - Reducing the risk of dying from bowel cancer
Bowel cancer - Screening for bowel cancer

Brain development - Childhood and adolescent
Breast cancer

Breast cancer - Biopsy of breast lesions
Breast cancer - Inherited breast cancer
Breast cancer - Prevention
Breast cancer - Risk Factors
Breast cancer - Types of breast cancer
Breast cancer - Why do women delay presenting with breast cancer symptoms?
Breast cancer in young women - But I'm too young?
Breast checks - Recognising cancerous changes in the breast early

Breastfeeding and contraception
Bulimia
Burns and children

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Caffeine
Calcium
Calcium supplements and osteoporosis
Cancer

Cancer - What is it?
Cancer - The importance of early recognition of cancer symptoms
Cancer – Bowel cancer
Cancer – Breast cancer
Cancer – Cervical cancer (Cancer of the cervix)
Cancer – Prostate cancer
Cancer – Skin cancer / melanoma
Cancer and diet
Cancer screening
Caner symptoms

Cannabis
Carbohydrates and low glycaemic index foods
Cardiac rehabilitation programs
Cardiovascular disease risk
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke)
Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer - Human Pappiloma Virus infection
Chest pain (angina)
Chest pain (angina) - Medical tests for the investigation of heart (angina) pain
Chicken pox and pregnancy
Child health issues

Child abuse
Childhood and adolescent anxiety
Childhood accidents and injuries - Motor vehicle accidents, falls, burns, drowning, choking, poisoning.
Childhood and adolescent depression
Childhood and adolescent brain development
Childhood nutrition
Childhood nutrition - Fussy eaters
Childhood obesity

Chlamydia
Choking and children
Cholesterol and diet
Cholesterol - Risk factor for heart attacks
Cholesterol - Target levels
Chronic glaucoma - A silent cause of loss of vision
Circadian rhythm
Cocaine
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - Changing the way we think
Colonoscopy - Screening individuals at moderate and high risk
Colorectal cancer - See Bowel cancer
Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill - 'The pill'
Complimentary medicines for non-specific or undiagnosed illnesses
Computer use - Monitoring child use
Condoms - Male and female
Consumer food information - Food labels and food shopping
Contraception
Contraception options – A summary
Contraception while breastfeeding
Coping - parents
Counselling
Cystic fibrosis issues in pregnancy
Cytomegalovirus and pregnancy

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Date rape
Death and disability in Australian adults
Dementia
Dementia - Prevention
Dental caries (tooth decay)
Depressant illicit drugs
Depression

Depression in adults – Incidence and prevention
Depression in adults - Treatment
Depression in children and adolescents - Incidence and prevention
Depression in children and adolescents - Treatment

Diabetes
Diaphragms
Diet – See nutrition Diet – See nutrition
Divorce/separation
Down syndrome and pregnancy
Drink spiking
Driver safety and education - Teenagers
Driving and alcohol
Drowning - Adults
Drowning and children
Drug use
Ductal carcinoma in situ. (DCIS)

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Eating behaviours
Ecstasy
Emergency contraception – Reassurance if you are uncertain.
Emergency help - ‘000’
Energy - Body energy imbalance – a major health dilemma
Energy density' of common foods
Energy intakes for children
Epworth Sleepiness Score
Essential fatty acids
Evidence-based medicine

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Faecal occult blood testing (FOBT)
for bowel cancer screening
Fall prevention in adults
Falls and children
Family history of heart attack
Fat in the body and diet

Cholesterol and diet
Cholesterol - Risk factor for heart attacks
Cholesterol - Target levels
Fat consumption in childhood
Fat content of foods in a healthy diet
Fat in the diet - Fat intake in Australian diets
Fats in the blood - Abnormal blood lipid (fat) levels
Fats in the blood - Improving / optimising blood lipid levels
Fats in the blood - The benefits of improving harmful blood lipid abnormalities
Fatty acids
Monounsaturated fatty acids
Plant sterols
Omega 3 fatty acids
Polyunsaturated fatty acids
Saturated fatty acids

Female health issues
Fibre in the diet
FOBT- Faecal occult blood testing
Food additives
Food allergies
Food labels
Food sources of calcium
Food-borne illness in Australia
Fracture prevention in older Australians
Fragile X syndrome and pregnancy
Fruit and vegetables and cancer reduction
Fussy eaters

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Genital herpes
Glaucoma (chronic) - A silent cause of loss of vision
Glycaemic index
GI (Glycaemic index)

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Hallucinogens including LSD
Hearing loss - adult-onset
Heart attack prevention

Heart attack - Assessing heart attack risk level
Heart attack - Family history of heart attack
Heart attack - Risk factors for heart attacks
Heart attack -What is the risk of having another heart attack?
Heart attack risk factors - Treatment target levels for high risk patients
Heart attack risk factors

Antioxidants
Cholesterol
Depression
Diabetes
High blood pressure (Hypertension)
Kidney disease and cardiovascular risk
Lipoprotein (a)
Obesity
Physical inactivity
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Raised homocysteine levels
Smoking

Heart failure prevention
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B and pregnancy
Hepatitis C
Herbal and natural remedies
Heroin
Herpes simplex and pregnancy
High blood pressure - See hypertension
HIV / AIDS
HIV / AIDS and pregnancy
Homocysteine - A heart attack risk factor
Hormone replacement therapy
HRT
Human Papilloma Virus
Human Papilloma Virus - Screening tests
Human Papilloma Virus - Vaccination against
Hypertension

Hypertension - Blood pressure medications
Hypertension - Blood pressure target levels - How far should BP be lowered?
Hypertension - Prevention of hypertension (high blood pressure)
Hypertension - Treatment

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Iatrogenic disease - Illness caused by medical treament
Ice (methamphetamine)
Illicit substances - Multiple drug use
Illicit substances -Classification of illicit substances
Illness prevention and the GP relationship
Immunisations
Infectious diseases - Guide to infectious diseases that require exclusion from school
Infectious diseases and pregnancy
Infectious diseases prevention
Influenza and pregnancy
Insoluble fibre and the bowel
Insomnia
Intrauterine devices (IUDs)
Iron intake

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Kidney disease - Common medications that can worsen kidney disease
Kidney disease and heart attacks
Kidney disease in Australia
Kidney disease preventionKidney disease prevention
Kidney function

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Lifestyle behaviours - A staged program for approaching changing lifestyle behaviours
Lifestyle change
Lipoprotein (a) - A risk factor for heart attacks
Listeria infection and pregnancy
LSD
Lung cancer - Recognising possible lung caner symptoms
Lung disease prevention

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Macula degeneration
Magnesium intake
Mammograms
Marijuana
Medical treatment and illness
Medications - Gaining maximum benefit
Medications - Safe use in older people
Mediterranean diet
Melanoma
Menopause
Mental health
Mental illness in Australia
Metabolic Syndrome
Methamphetamine
Minipill
Monounsaturated fats
Motor vehicle accidents in adults
Motor vehicle accidents in children

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Nicotine
Nicotine replacement therapy to aid quitting
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (arthritis drugs)
Nutrition and diet

Carbohydrates (sugar and starch) intake
Childhood nutrition
Childhood nutrition – Fussy eaters
Diet and cancer prevention
Dietary nutrient groups
Dietary planning initiatives
Diets and weight loss
Diets - Fibre
Diets - Some problem diets
Fat intake (Also see fat)
Healthy Australian diet
Nutrients in vegetables and fruit - Preservation
Nutrition – An introduction
Nutrition issues in Australians
Vitamins and minerals

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Obesity and cancer
Obesity in adults
Obesity in children and adolescents
Omega-3 fats
Organic foods
Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis - Diagnosing osteoporosis
Osteoporosis - Exercise and osteoporosis prevention
Osteoporosis - Fracture sites in older adults
Osteoporosis - Medication for osteoporosis
Osteoporosis - Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis
Osteoporosis - Risk factors

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Pap smears
Parenting - Creating self-confident, resilient and healthy children
Parenting styles
Parties and teenagers
Party drugs - Ketamine and GHB (Fantasy
Parvovirus (slapped face disease) and pregnancy
Pesticides in foods
Physical inactivity

Physical activity - Preventing injury from exercise
Physical activity for children
Physical activity for people with cardiovascular disease
Physical activity for the elderly
Physical activity during pregnancy

Plant sterols
Poisoning and children
Polycystic ovarian syndrome and heart disease
Polyunsaturated fats
Pre-pregnancy heath issues and the pre-pregnancy consultation
Prebiotics
Pregnancy health issues

Pregnancy - Dietary issues - Folate and iodine deficiencies.
Pregnancy - Drug issues - Alcohol, smoking.
Pregnancy - Maternal illness issues - Medications, blood pressure, epilepsy, diabetes, phenylketonuria.
Pregnancy - Older mothers - Fertility and age, foetal abnormality incidence
Pregnancy - Infectious diseases
Prenatal testing for foetal abnormalities

Pregnancy - Prevention in teenagers
Pregnancy - Termination
Preserving protective nutrients in vegetables and fruit
Preventing unplanned teenage pregnancy
Probiotics
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer - Risk factors for prostate cancer
Protective factors against unhealthy risk-taking behaviour in adolescents
PSA tests

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Relationships
Resilience Doughnut Program
Resilience in children
Respiratory disease prevention
Restless legs syndrome
Risk factors for disease
Risk factors for heart attacks
Risk factors for strokes
Risk taking - Adolescent issues
Road traffic accidents
Rubella and pregnancy

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Safe sex messages for teenagers
Salt
Saturated fatty acids
School - Guide to infectious diseases that require exclusion from school
Screening for disease

Screening needs to be proven to be beneficial
Screening tests recommended for Australians

Self-confidence and healthy children
Sexually transmitted diseases
Skin cancer and their incidence
Skin cancer prevention - Sun avoidance, sunscreens, protective clothing / hats and garden / home shade
Skin cancer screening
Sleep

Sleep - Children
Sleep problems - new mothers
Sleep apnoeaSleep apnoea
Sleepiness - Assessment using the Epworth Sleepiness Score

Smoking

Smoking - Prevention
Smoking - Adolescents
Smoking - Cancer and other diseases caused by smoking
Smoking - The benefits of quitting
Smoking - Antidepressants drugs to aid quitting - Bupropion and Nortriptyline
Smoking and chronis obstructive lung disease (Chronic bronchitis and emphysaema)

Sodium intake
Soluble fibre and cholesterol
Statin drugs
Sterols
Stimulant drugs (psychostimulants)
Stress
Stroke (cerebrovascular disease)
Stroke prevention
Structured Problem Solving: Another problem solving technique
Sudden cardiac ('heart related') death in young athletes
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Suicide prevention
Sunglasses / glasses and UV light protections Sunglasses / glasses and UV light protections

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Teenage driver safety and education
Teenagers and alcohol
Teenagers going out - What they need to do /know
Teeth - Avulsed (dislodged)
Termination of the pregnancy
Testing for foetal genetic abnormalities
Thalassaemia and pregnancy
The Pill (The Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill
Thinking - ‘Faulty thinking’ is the reason many problems upset us
Tiredness / sleepiness
Tooth decay
Toxoplasmosis and pregnancy
Trans fatty acids
Treatment and illness
TV and computer use

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Unplanned pregnancies
Unsaturated fatty acids - Monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats

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Vascular (blood vessel) system
Vascular disease development
Vegetables and cancer reduction
Vegetarian diets
Visual loss in Australia
Vitamin D deficiency
Vitamin D intake
Vitamin supplements
Vitamins and minerals

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Waist size and obesity
Whooping cough and pregnancy
Workplace injuries
World Cancer Research Fund dietary recommendations to prevent cancer