A research team has embarked on a two-year project to design individual health screening tools and community-level interventions in the Torres Strait region. James Cook University's Healthy Ageing Research Team (HART) researchers joined forces with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

In the years 2017–18, just over 47 per cent of Australians had one or more chronic conditions. This is an increase of five per cent from the 2007–08 figures of just over 42 per cent. Chronic disease accounts for  37 per ...

Oral disease contributes to both poor dental health, and negative healthcare outcomes.  Oral disease is one of twelve chronic diseases identified as National Health Priority Areas (NHPA) by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). In 2006, AIHW estimated ...

Queensland health groups have initiated a joint health campaign to emphasise the link between obesity and chronic disease. A network of Queensland’s leading non-government health organisations has joined forces to help combat the state’s obesity epidemic. Diabetes Queensland, the Heart ...

Collaborative care for the management of depression, heart disease and diabetes brings positive results. By Annie May. Practice nurses can improve depression in patients with diabetes and heart disease, a recent study has found. Researchers from the Greater Green Triangle ...