NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service

New Publications

Update June 2009

• Smoking with kids in the car is now illegal [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update May 2009

• Healthy Swimming [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Statewide eyesight preschooler screening [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update April 2009

• Powerpoint on safe medicines use [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Radio interview spokesperson [resource details]
• Questions to Ask [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update March 2009

• Get to know your medicines [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Medicines list [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• how to use eye drops [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Advice to patients leaving hospital after glaucoma surgery [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• advice to patients leaving hospital after corneal graft surgery [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Instructions for eye patients after leaving the hospital [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

• Advice to patients leaving hospital after retinal surgery [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

• Living well with chronic heart failure [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

• Bone Marrow Biopsy [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Parents and carers asthma information pack [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Your Medicines List [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Communication development pyramid [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Rotavirus infection [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Typhoid [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Rubella [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Yellow Fever [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Pneumococcal Disease [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Mumps [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• What is Tourette Syndrome? [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Hepatitis A [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Hepatitis B [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Hepatitis C [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Measles information for contacts [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Measles [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Meningococcal information for contacts  [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update February 2009

• Chickenpox and Shingles [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Haemophilus Influenzae Type b Disease [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Compression stocking [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Brain Injury Service [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Chop Chop Tobacco Fact Sheet [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Tubes  Care and Management [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Organising ongoing supplies [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Feeding Plan [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• HEN Nutrition Plan [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Feeding Tubes Troubleshooting [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• HEN Troubleshooting [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• DENTAL CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Lift the Lip- multicultral poster [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Diabetes Booklet [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update January 2009

Parents and carers asthma information pack  [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update November 2008

• Audio information on Achieve Better Health  [resource details]
• Achieve Better Health [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Speech Pathology and Dysphasia [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Code of Conduct [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• HEPATITIS C [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• HEPATITIS B [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Health checks on arrival  [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Sickle Cell Disease Fact sheet  [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Strongyloidiasis fact sheet  [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• SCHISTOSOMIASIS [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update October 2008

• Waterpipe tobacco fact sheet [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Waterpipe tobacco Information for retailers [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Update September 2008

• Delirium [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Useful words [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Bladder Care  [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Flip Chart Phrases for Eye Emergencies [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Be Prepared  [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Prevent falls by learning about your medicines [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• MANAGING YOUR MEDICINES [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Getting a good night sleep [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Enquiry about medicines and medical devices and emergency helpline [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• cheaper brand medicines provide the same quality [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• prevent incontinence and constipation by learning about your medicines  [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• 10 MEDICINE MANAGEMENT MUSTS [pdf] | [resource details]  [zip file]

Update August 2008

• Blood transfusion [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

Update May 2008

• Home Safety for Falls Prevention [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

Updated April 2008

• Breast Feeding [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Manage Your Medicines [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Improve Your Balance [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Be Physically Active [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Make the Most of Your Eyesight [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Lifescripts [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

Updated March 2008

• Hearing loss [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

Updated December 2007

• Kidney Failure Treatment Options [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Love Talk Sing Read Play. Ideas to make the most of my child early development [pdf] | [resource details]

Updated November 2007

• Questions and Answers for Contamination of Bindeez TM beads [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

Updated October 2007

• Improving the Effectiveness of Your Medications by Learning the Effects of Food and Drinks [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Adult Asthma Information Pack [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• COPD Information Pack [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Facts About Depression [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Updated September 2007

• Video ad on Spanish subtitles of Anti tobacco commercial [resource details]
• Video information For Parents Who Smoke [resource details]
• Arabic audio information on children's health [resource details]
• NSW Carers Action Plan [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

Updated August 2007

• Having A Baby [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Gambling Problems? [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• The Six Tips for Good Ear Care [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Hepatitis C in Brief - Patient Fact Sheet [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Community Sharps Leaflet [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]
• Caesarean Section Information Booking Brochure [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

updated June 2007

• Lift the Lip resource [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Information for Parents (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Early Childhood Health Services (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Monitoring your child’s growth and development (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Before your child’s 1-4 week check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Before your child’s 6 to 8 weeks health check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Before your child’s 6 month health check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Before your child’s 12 months health check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Before your child’s 18 months health check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]  
• Before your child’s 2 year health check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Before your child’s 3 year health check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Before your child’s 4 year health check (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Primary and secondary school (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Immunisation information (from My First Health Record (Blue Book)) [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

updated April 2007

• post mortem examination of a stillborn baby [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

updated March 2007

• Fruit and Vegetable fact sheets [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Rubella Information (with Special emphasis for women of childbearing age)  [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]
• Palliative Care [pdf] | [resource details] [zip file]

updated 19 December 2006

• School canteen parent information [PDF] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• Quitting is hard, but you can do it. tips to help you stop smoking [PDF] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• Families & Friends affected by the drug or alcohol use of someone close [pdf] | [resource details][zip file]

updated 12 September 2006

• Information for Carers - People who look after others - Support and Services to assist you [pdf] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• Stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack - What You Need to Know [pdf] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• Talking to your child in your language [pdf] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• 10 tips for safer healthcare - pamphlet [pdf] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• 10 tips for safer healthcare - booklet [pdf] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• Family matters - how to approach drug issues with your family [pdf] | [resource details] | [zip file]
• Fit for the future - Have your say about future directions for health in NSW [pdf] | [resource details]
• The Australian Guide to Health Eating [pdf] | [resource details]

After an extensive review process the following amended resources have been returned to our site

• Planning a pregnancy? Things to do before you conceive [pdf] | [resource details]
• Why do children need immunisation? [pdf] | [resource details]
• Injections for newborn babies - why they're important [pdf] | [resource details]
• Children's infectious diseases [pdf] | [resource details]
• Meningococcal Disease [pdf] | [resource details]
• Pertussis (whooping cough) [pdf] | [resource details]
• Rubella immunisation card [pdf] | [resource details]