Six Steps to Cardiac Recovery Terms / References


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Young Hearts program for your patients

Providing support, education and social connection to young people aged 18-45 who is living or caring for someone with a heart condition.

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Home page to Heart Foundation Supporting Young Hearts program


Ambulance Cover

WAVICSA, or NT Buying an ambulance subscription with your state ambulance service provider is required to ensure you are covered for all ambulance services, not just emergency.

QLD or TAS You are automatically covered for ambulance services through your state government within your state. Check with your state ambulance service provider for details regarding national cover and non-emergency transport.


NSW and ACT Residents in their home state, government works with your hospital cover for emergency transport. 



Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

The National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards provide a nationally consistent statement of the level of care consumers can expect from health service organisations.

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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Global Burden of Disease Study for 2019.

To discover the world's health data, click the image.  

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Health literacy, does it make a difference?

Article by Anne Johnson that provides contextual information about health literacy and its importance to health care, nursing, and health consumers.

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Consumers Health Forum of Australia

CHF was engaged and funded by NPS MedicineWise as the lead agency to plan and implement a project, Consumer Health Literacy Segmentation Research.

The Consumer Segmentation Research contributes to improving consumer health literacy as it relates to quality use of medicines (QUM) through the implementation of research to:

1. Understand the current status of health literacy amongst Australians

2. Inform future NPS MedicineWise Grant activities

3. Support the principles and objectives of the National Medicines Policy.


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Patients’ memory for medical information

From Journal of The Royal Society of Medicine. 

Author: RPC Kessels. 

A link to the article can be found here 


Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Many resources on the teach-back technique for health care providers. The teach-back technique is used to ensure that health providers have explained medical information clearly so that patients and their families understand what is communicated to them. This intervention includes several materials to support adoption.

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St Vincent’s Hospital

Heart Health information provided by St Vincent's Hospital. 

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Screenshot of St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website


Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Supporting smoking cessation: A guide for health practitioners

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Screenshot of RACGP smoking cessation guide



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