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Australian men are more likely to be obese than women. Government studies show that the rate of overweight and obese men is 25% higher than that of women. This puts men at higher risk for the side effects of obesity, which includes high blood pressure.
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Are you applying for your first job in healthcare, or applying for a new position with the experience to back it up? Regardless of your experience level, there are some important things you should keep in mind.
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In Australia, childhood obesity has hit epidemic levels, with more than 15% of girls and 20% of boys considered obese. Health implications for these children, including diabetes, high blood pressure, hormonal imbalance and sleep disorders, are as serious
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Young girls of today face many challenges when it comes to thier body image. Many young women are chasing unrealistic and ultimately unattainable goals of body image perfection. Dissatisfaction with their faces, hair, weight, breast sizes and body shape i
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Acne, body odour, too much or too little body hair, body shape and weight, having the latest designer clothes – these body image issues are apparently more important to our young people than global warming and career opportunities.
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A teenager who worries a lot tends to overestimate the likelihood and seriousness of something bad happening to them. This fast fact sheet comprises a plan to help reduce anxiety and to promote realistic thinking in worried or fearful teenagers.
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Anxiety is commonly experienced by teenagers. This Fast Fact sheet describes the common ways in which adolescents experience and cope with anxiety.
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Anger is a healthy emotion that tells us something is wrong but it needs to be dealt with appropriately. It is a normal, natural and healthy reaction to experiencing difficult situations we really don’t like and provides energy for action to change.
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If health professionals, caring for cancer patients, have negative thoughts, these thoughts can often influence their ability to work proficiently within their health care environment. This fact sheet outlines eleven common misconceptions, so that these
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Feeling down or lacking energy can seem all-consuming when one is in this state of mind. This fact sheet provides some practical strategies for inspiring motivation and positive thoughts.
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Communicating with patients, their families and their friends is both an important and sometimes difficult task. This may be because of a difference in medical understanding; ethical or moral perceptions; or an impaired mental state arising from health pr
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This fact sheet is a practical worksheet, which cancer patients can use to both record their events, and motivate themselves in performing other everyday activities.
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This fact sheet provides some practical strategies for inspiring motivation and positive thoughts. Specifically addressing, looking after: (1) yourself daily; (2) your needs; (3) your relationships; (4) your emotions...
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This fact sheet provides a four-step, practical guide to reshaping negative to positive thoughts - centred around personal analysis of the thought itself...
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Managing negative thoughts can often be overwhelming, so documenting them in a diary can usually prove an effective way to release stress and create a sense of control and order within your mind...
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Providing four easy steps to help manage your worry, this fact sheet encourages active self-help when an individual may be becoming overwhelmed by worrisome thoughts...
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"Just as people experience stress differently, the things that can work to relieve stress vary too. A number of suggestions for ways of coping with stress are listed..."
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Where stress and other anxieties have caused a patient to be overcome with emotion, Progressive Muscle Relaxation can be utilised to assist the patient in releasing these concerns and thus more rationally dealing with their problems...
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This fact sheet shows a diagram of a human, labelling areas where anxiety-symptoms may arise...
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This fast fact sheet provides both information about and a diagram of the stress threshold - how much we can handle and what we should do when we know we've reached that threshold...
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