Monash University Medicine handbook 1995

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Community Medicine

Head: Professor J E Murtagh

Address: Department of Community Medicine, 867 Centre Road, East Bentleigh, 3165

Computer-based learning software. Applications of computers in medical practice. Cardiovascular risk factors. Attitudinal determinants of general practice prescribing, investigating and referring. Health concerns of patients. Consulting skills and rational prescribing - developing a national program. Smoking prevalence and cessation in people with intellectual disability. Evaluation of student use of information technology.

Research activities in conjunction with the Centre for Rural Health

Centre for Rural Health, Latrobe Regional Hospital, Locked Bag No. 1, PO Moe, Victoria, 3825

Doctor and patient perceptions of the general practitioner as resource manager/gatekeeper. The health service needs of small rural communities. Counselling in general practice. Promoting health care professions to rural secondary students. Asthma and the home environment. Rural injury. Community health and health promotion in the rural setting.



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