Ministerial rural health forums
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18th Ministerial Rural Health Forum: Health Services and Small Rural Communities
The 18th Ministerial Rural Health Forum will be held on Friday 30 October 2009 in Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Docklands, Medallion Club Level 2 Gate 9. The theme of the forum is Health Services and Small Rural Communities.
Register for the forum online.
 How to get to the Medallion Club (227kb, pdf)
17th Ministerial Rural Health Forum: Public Health: making sense of prevention
The 17th Ministerial Rural Health Forum was held on Friday 24 July 2009 at Etihad Stadium Docklands (formerly Telstra Dome), Melbourne.
The forum's theme was Public Health: making sense of prevention. The agenda included a short address from Minister Andrews as well as keynotes and concurrent sessions addressing key challenges facing public health today.
Agenda - 17th Ministerial Rural Health Forum, Friday 24 July (59kb, pdf)
The work of the National Preventative Health Taskforce - Professor Rob Moodie (1,252kb, pdf)
Speaker biographies and synopsis of each presentation (172kb, pdf)
Session 1: Planning prevention locally: case studies from rural Victoria
Municipal Public Health Planning in the Glenelg Shire - Adele Kenneally and Rosie Rowe (224kb, pdf)
Saving our bacon: linking research, policy and practice in rural workplaces - Shelley Bowen and John Sawtell (629kb, pdf)
Myth Busters: Implementing Water Fluoridation in Regional Victoria - Dr John Carnie (362kb, pdf)
Session 2: Health and social wellbeing in a rural context
Refugee Settlement in Regional and Rural Victoria: Impacts and Policy Issues - Sue Casey and Dr Brooke McDonald-Wilmsen (717kb, pdf)
 Indigenous Health Issues and Rural Victoria - Dr Jon Willis (992kb, MS Powerpoint)
Improving the Sexual Health of Rural Victorians - Jane Tomnay (1,091kb, pdf)
Session 3: Changing environments: local responses
Climate change adaption framework for local action - Rosie Rowe (1,583kb, pdf)
Emergency Management: Consequences on Communities - Craig Lapsley (2,087kb, pdf)
Heatwave response planning: policy and practice - Julie Hoy and Stephanie Garoni (1,241kb, pdf)
Wrap up - Jim Hyde (145kb, pdf)
Victoria's experience of H1N1 Swine flu - Professor C W Brook (738kb, pdf)
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