Publications - V

Victorian Health Plan

Across Victoria, the Australian Government is investing in a range of medical research, infrastructure, mental health and primary care initiatives that will mean real, on-the-ground health benefits for all Victorians.

• Cancer
• Research and development
• Hospitals
• Mental health
• Primary health care
• Diagnostic imaging

Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS)–Service Delivery Standards

The Service Delivery standard provides an overview of the funding arrangements provided to optometrists to deliver outreach eye care services to people living in regional, rural and remote locations of Australia, who do not have access to primary eye care services.

• Rural health services
• Eye health

Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS)–Grant Programme Guidelines

These guidelines provide an overview of the funding arrangements provided to optometrists to deliver outreach eye care services to people living in regional, rural and remote locations.

• Rural health services
• Eye health

Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia 2006–2010

Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2006 to 2010’ is the third in a series of reports published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence. It provides data on disease notifications, hospitalisations, deaths and childhood vaccinations, comparing rates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people. It identifies areas of success and improvement, and areas that need further attention.

• 2013

Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2003 to 2006

This is the second report on vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and complements the Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage reports produced biannually since 2000.

• 2008

Volatile substance misuse: a review of interventions: monograph series no. 65

This review examines published and unpublished literature about interventions designed to combat volatile substance misuse.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Drugs and substance abuse

Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Australia, 2003 to 2005

This is the fourth report on vaccine preventable disease and vaccination coverage in Australia, and is produced by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing published as a supplement to the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal Volume 31, June 2007.

• 2007

Volume I: Current Status and Future Directions

Injury Prevention Activity Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Project Report

• Injury prevention

Volume II: Programs, Project and Actions

Project Report on Injury Prevention Activity Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

• Injury prevention

Voluntary agreement for the disclosure of the ingredients of cigarettes

Under this agreement, tobacco companies provide annual reports on the ingredients of cigarettes.

• Tobacco

Voluntary agreement for the disclosure of the ingredients of cigarettes

Under this agreement, tobacco companies provide annual reports on the ingredients of cigarettes.

• Tobacco

Valuing the past ... investing in the future- Evaluation of the National HIV /AIDS Strategy 1993-94 to 1995-96

The National HIV/AIDS Strategy 1993–94 to 1995–96 is Australia’s second National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The first Strategy operated from 1989 to 1993 and was evaluated in 1992. This evaluation report was requested by Federal Cabinet when it agreed to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy 1993–94 to 1995–96.

• Communicable diseases
• HIV & AIDS