The Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome is a condition associated with orthostatic intolerance and syncope, in association with an inappropriate rise in heart rate without a fall in blood pressure.
Generation Victoria or “Gen V” has the potential to enhance the way we all work. We want to ensure that you and your team have the opportunity to provide input – we would like your feedback and ideas.
Early childhood development is critical for developing the human capital we need for a prosperous and sustainable society.
This presentation will explore common challenges clinicians face including lack of previously established relationships, misaligned surgical or treatment expectations, language and cultural misunderstandings, heightened emotionality, time pressures, family-staff conflict, and fractured teamwork. Impediments to good communication and relationships will be highlighted.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in infants and contributes more than 9,000 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) to the total burden of disease in Australia.
Participatory health technologies include wearable sensors for self-quantification of physiological status (quantifiedself.org) and social networking sites for people to share their healthcare experiences and to analyse their shared health data as well (patientslikeme.com).
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Grattan Institute is an independent think tank dedicated to developing high quality public policy for Australia’s future. It was formed in 2008 in response to a widespread view in government and business that Australia needed a non-partisan think tank providing independent, rigorous and practical solutions to some of the country’s most pressing problems.
This Grand Round will highlight how Wadja Aboriginal Family Place as well as other RCH staff/Departments are working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children and young people.
The literature on child disclosure of family abuse (i.e. sexual abuse, physical abuse, exposure to domestic violence) will be reviewed with a focus on how parental and community response to disclosure predicts long-term recovery for the child. Subtle and overt forms of non-supportive responses to disclosure will be examined through the prism of recent research on priming and neuroethics- a literature that can help elucidate the multiple pathways that adults might unconsciously employ to discourage children from fully communicating details of their victimization.
