Free health and welfare information
Free databases and journals
InfoRx Freely available quality online health information maintained and developed by librarians at the Australian Department of Health and Ageing as a public service to the health professionals and clinicians of Australia. – includes links to free journals, databases, consumer health and more.
Australian government
search the sites of Commonwealth and state health/welfare departments
Statistics
Health status of Victorians includes Burden of Disease
ABS@ – full text of Australian Bureau of Statistics publications
Accessibility of Services for Rural Australia includes Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia. (ARIA). – Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Australian Institute of Family Studies – links to Australian statistics on families and social issues
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare – Australia’s national agency for health and welfare statistics
Commonwealth Government Statistical Clearinghouse – the central point for all Australian Commonwealth Government surveys involving 50 or more businesses.
National Statistical Service Includes survey standards, manuals and guidelines
Victoria.Department of Sustainability and Environment – “Know your area” -online Victorian demographic, social and economic statistics. Includes statistics on regions, suburbs and population projections
Echidna: health services profiles for Victorian regions – health services, status, and other health related indicators for communities across rural Victoria. Includes Postcode profiles Maintained by the School of Rural Health Monash University.
WHO Statistical Information System – World Health Organization guide to international health related statistics (requires full internet access)
Globalhealthfacts.org global statistics on HIV, TB, malaria and more. Includes Programs , funding and finance with global comparisons of health workforce numbers.
World in Your Pocket: A Handbook of International Health Economic Statistics includes the most current available data, presented in separate sections on health status, health care costs, health resources, health resource utilization and health system performance.
Epidemiology for journalists (archived) a layperson’s guide to epidemiological methods from a US journalism education site
Official Statistics on the Web maintained by the University of Auckland library – provides links to official international statistics. Searchable by country, region of topic
Legislation – Government sites and Austlii
Australian Law Online Commonwealth Attorney General’s guide to online legal resources.
Parliament of Australia Library. Law internet resources – Australian and international law. Guides to specific topics: administrative, health, welfare, etc.
National Library of Australia. Australian Government Publications Guide. Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers located in National and State Libraries and on the internet.
Victorian legislation
Acts Bills Regulations Victoria Vic Gov I Austlii Vic Gov (inc Expanatory memoranda) Vic Gov I Austlii Note: Legislation administered by the Department of Human Services can be accessed from the KnowledgeNet Legislation by Portfolio page.
Commonwealth and Interstate legislation:
Acts Bills Regulations C’wealth SPlus I Austlii Billsnet I SPlus SPlus I Austlii NSW Austlii Austlii S A SA Gov I Austlii —– SAGovIAustlii Qld Qld Gov I Austlii Qld Gov Qld Gov I Austlii WA WA Gov I Austlii WA Gov WA Gov I Austlii ACT ACT I Austlii ACT Gov- ACT Gov I Austlii Tas Tas GovI Austlii —— Tas Gov NT NT Gov I Austlii —— NT Gov I Austlii
Government gazettes
Victorian Government gazettes online from 1998
Hansard:
Victoria online and searchable from 1991 I Commonwealth
Report watch - reports and news on human services 