1999 Medicine Handbook - Community Medicine and General Practice

Community Medicine and General Practice

General information
Research activities in conjunction with the Centre for Rural Health

General information

Head: Professor L Piterman
Address: Department of Community Medicine and General Practice, 867 Centre Road, East Bentleigh 3165
Telephone: (03) 9579 3188
Fax: (03) 9570 1382
Email: leon.piterman@med.monash.edu.au
Cardiovascular risk factors; mental health; clinical audits; implementation and evaluation of GP/pharmacist communication strategies; outcome evaluation of rational prescribing teaching package; stress; GP - hospital and GP; specialist integration/communication; evaluation of distance education intervention.

Research activities in conjunction with the Centre for Rural Health

Centre for Rural Health, Latrobe Regional Hospital, PO Box 424 Traralgon, Victoria 3844
Doctor and patient perceptions of the general practitioner as resource manager/gatekeeper; health service delivery in small rural communities; promoting health care professions to rural secondary students; asthma and the home environment; rural injury; community health and health promotion in the rural setting; rural health service quality assurance; rural surgical services; national rural general practice study; factors influencing occupational health outcomes in workplace injured agricultural production workers.