Public health

The National Medicines Policy (NMP) is a based on partnerships, launched in December 1999. with Governments - Commonwealth, States and Territories - health educators, health practitioners, and other healthcare providers and suppliers, the medicines industry, healthcare consumers, and the media.

Factsheets and information from the Australian Government.

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is the organisation responsible for the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme across Australia. AHPRA supports the 10 National Health Practitioner Boards that are responsible for regulating the 10 health professions. The primary role of the Boards is to protect the public and they set standards and policies that all registered health practitioners must meet.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information. The Institute produces authoritative publications about key health and welfare issues in Australia. The website offers an online catalogue of AIHW data holdings as well as the option to read publications online.

The National Aboriginal Health Strategy (NAHS) was developed by the National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Group in 1989 following extensive national consultations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, organizations and communities and with governments. It was a landmark document providing agreed direction for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy in Australia.

Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research.

Provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information on public health.

Includes information about WHO programmes, statistical information, full text publications, press releases and newsletters.

The aim is to strengthen the evidence base for interventions to improve health, with a strong emphasis on tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health

The NLM is the creator of the database Medline. The NLM web site links to a searchable catalogue but also to many other health information resources including the databases Medline, Toxline, Genbank and others.

Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

Premier US public health agency. Range of health and safety topics as well as data and statistics.

TobaccoArchives.com is a website available to the public and litigants that provides access to millions of pages of tobacco company documents that have been produced in civil smoking and health litigation in the United States.