National Medicines Symposium 2006

Session Details

Medicines use in Indigenous, remote and rural communities

Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:00 -17:30

Bradman Theatre

Chair Ms Diane Walsh Alternate Director, NPS 

Beyond Words: lessons on translation, trust and meaning from the "No more 'mualagh' project"
  • Meg Griffiths, Multicultural Mental Health Australia
  • Associate Professor Nicholas Procter, University of South Australia
  • Health literacy or low literacy? Issues around medicines education
  • Margaret L Craig, bushqum
  • Balancing beliefs and behaviours about medicines in remote Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory
  • Jill McDonald, Katherine West Health BOard Aboriginal Corporation
  • The Influence of the Social Determinants of Health on Indigenous Quality Use of Medicines in Urban and Remote Settings
  • Ms Amanda R Justice, National Precribing Service
  • Pharmacy Out Bush: An evaluation of remote pharmacist services
  • Frances Vaughan, Centre for Remote Health, Alice Springs
  • A Community Engagement approach to support Quality Use of Medicines in rural areas with 'hard-to-reach' communities
  • Melanie Cantwell, Consumers' Health Forum of Australia
  • Ms Yvonne Solly, Consumers' Health Forum of Australia
  • Published on Monday, 29 May 2006 by the Professional Conference Organiser