Prevention

Lifestyle Behaviour Change

• Health Coaching Australia 

• Janette Gale – Integrating Health Coaching into Organisational Systems  (PDF presentation)

• Motivational Interviewing - Resources for Clinicians. 

• Presentation from Motivating Lifestyle Behavioural Change event.

  • Motivational Interviewing

• Prof Nick Zwar - Prevention in Primary Care: Challenges and opportunities 

• Get Healthy - Information and Coaching Service, Ph: 1300 806 258

• Diabetes Assist, for those with diabetes type 2, pre-diabetes, or previously diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy, or with a score of 12 or more on the AusDRISK tool. Ph 1300 745 153

• Swap it Don't Stop It - Commonwealth Government campaign

Other Resources

Exercise

• The Find Thirty campaign is an initiative of the Premier's Physical Activity Council. 

• Physical Initiatives Data Base - The Premier's Physical Activity Council's website Get Moving Tasmania includes a snapshot of current physical activity in Tasmania. The initiatives have been grouped on the database into settings for parents, schools, adults, communities and workplaces. 

• Exercise is Medicine ^New

• Heart Foundation Walking page  

• National Physical Activity Guidelines  

• Heartmoves - Heart Foundation Exercise Program for people with health conditions or those who haven't exercised in a while.

• Hot Weather Guidelines and Beat the Heat Fact Sheet - Physical Activity - Revised guidelines by Sports Medicine Australia

• Recommendations on Physical Activity for health for older Australians  

• Measure Up – Commonwealth Government Initiative 

• Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) 

Nutrition

• Nutrient Reference Values – recommendations for nutrition in take – including a calculator for specific age and gender

• Building solutions for preventing childhood obesity - University of Sydney Prevention Research Centres have developed a series of modules that synthesises recent evidence of the effectiveness of interventions for preventing weight gain and promoting healthy weight among children and adolescents. 

• Australian Guide to Healthy Eating ^{Jan 2012}

• National Health and Medical Research Council - nutrient reference values and tool for calculating nutrient and dietary energy by age and gender.

•  NHMRC Dietary Guidelines for Children & Adolescents in Australia  incorporating the Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers

Other

• NHMRC 2009 Australian Guidelines to reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol.

• Cardiovascular Disease Resources  at GP South

• ABC approach to Smoking Cessation -  DHHS E Learning Module - an easy and quick training course in smoking cessation advice, for healthcare workers, taking approximately 30 minutes.

• Smoking cessation resource,  a quick reference guide to the ABC approach to Smoking Cessation, and a guide to the use of Nicotine Replacement therapy

RACGP Resources

• Smoking Cessation

  • Smoking Cessation Guidelines – Guidelines for Preventative Activities in General Practice (7th Ed)

  • Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Australian General Practice

• Red Book – 7th Edition. Preventative activities over the lifecycle – children and adults

• Green Book – Putting prevention into practice

• Gplearning catalogue – the suite of lifestyle modules is Implementing Lifestyle Change – smoking cessation, physical activity, weight, nutrition and alcohol.

• M5 Project - RACGP Men’s Health preventative health project – consumer website 

• SNAP framework Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol & Physical activity

National/International 

•  The Heart Foundation

•  Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute

•  Dieticians Association of Aust  

Tasmania Specific

•  Quit Tasmania

•  Diabetes Tasmania

•  Get Moving Tasmania

•  Arthritis Tasmania

•  Asthma Tasmania