Department of
Health and Community Services

health promotion strategy

what is the "bush book"?

The Northern Territory Public Health Bush Book is a valuable resource of two volumes, for those who work in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. It is written by those who have worked in and with remote community health care teams.

View complete volumes online below or order your copy via these forms:

• order the Bush Book from Australia
• order the Bush Book from overseas

table of contents

In November 2001, Territory Health Services changed agency name to Department of Health and Community Services. As this publication was written and compiled prior to the agency's name change, all references to Territory Health Services should be understood to mean the Department of Health and Community Services.

First edition published in 1999
Second edition printed in 2002

volume 1

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Education for Health
• Chapter 2 - Sharing Health Information
• Chapter 3 - Strategies for Health Promotion
• Chapter 4 - Planning and Evaluating a Health Promotion Project
• Chapter 5 - Towards a Healthy Health Centre
• Chapter 6 - Glossary
• Evaluation

volume 2

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Alcohol and Other Drugs
• Chapter 2 - Environmental Health
• Chapter 3 - Food and Nutrition
• Evaluation

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