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Your health is important to us and so are your information needs. From this section of our site you can link to information to help you with health issues.
This index is arranged by subject. If you would prefer to see a full list of fact sheets, you can look on our alphabetical list by title.
or you might like to leave our site to view NSW Health fact sheets.
Children 
You can read the health hotline 'Childhood obesity', 'Foot health for children', or a brochure titled
'Sound beginings: does your child hear OK?'. Or you might like to look
at a more comprehensive fact sheet for health professionals on Hearing loss in young children.
Also available: Books for babies, Speech delay, Language delay, and Feeding disorders
Diabetes
Exercise and diabetes and Foot care in diabetes. |
Gambling
New fact sheets: Do you have a gambling problem?,
How gambling becomes a problem,
For family & friends &
Where to find help
Health professionals
Information to assist you with questions about health professionals,
different types of nursing staff and roles played by different types of health professionals
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Healthy lifestyle
Information covered includes Healthy ageing,
Influenza information,
Ideas for hearing impaired people,
Know your family health history,
Men's health,
“Veg-out” for health,
Water and health, When it's not just social drinking (ARBI),
Winter blues.
 
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Hearing
Information covered includes Hearing loss: the invisible handicap,
Ideas for hearing impaired people, How to communicate with a person who has difficulty hearing,
'Sound beginings: does your child hear OK?', Tips for talking with hearing impaired people. For health professionals:
Questions and answers about hearing, Hearing loss in young children.
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Languages other than English
Hearing loss: the invisible handicap
(available in English and 9 community languages), and Tips for talking with hard of hearing people (an extract from the invisible handicap fact sheet, available in English and 9 community languages).
Older people
We have sheets on healthy ageing, hearing loss, “why participate in research studies?” and current research at the Curran Ageing Research Unit.
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Mental Health
We have fact sheets on a number of mental health topics: Anxiety disorders, 'Someone in my family has psychosis':
Information for young people (primary school age), 'Someone in my family has psychosis: information for young people (high school age),
'What is psychosis?', The Mental Health Act,
'How can family and friends help with someone who is experiencing a psychotic episode and using street drugs?'.
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Podiatry and foot care
We have sheets on Arthritis and foot care, Chilblains, Diabetes and foot care, Tinea.
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Questions answered
We've answered some of your most frequently asked questions on Health,
Health professionals, HKHS Services,
Admission, HKHS and
Websites
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Self help information
New in our series of self-help pamphlets: Travel medicine. Previous titles include:
'Back care', 'Grief'
'Ideas for hearing impaired people: improving communication', Healthy lifestyle:
'Ageing well' , 'Influenza information',
'Sleep', 'Travel medicine' and 'Veg-out for health'. Plus information for people
coming to hospital. |
Speech and language
Information covered includes Acquired language disorders (dysphasia),
Acquired speech disorder (dysarthria),
Acquired swallowing disorders (dysphagia), books for babies, Language delay in children,
Speech delay in children, Stuttering,
Voice disorders and 'When to see a speech pathologist'. |
Stroke
We have information sheets on the early warning signs of stroke, acquired language disorders (dysphasia),
acquired speech disorder (dysarthria),
acquired swallowing disorders. |
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