Chapter 1 Weblinks and Further Reading

Closing the Gap https://www.closingthegap.gov.au/
Closing the Gap Report (2020) https://ctgreport.niaa.gov.au/
This Australian Government plan is aimed at closing the gap between the health outcomes of First Peoples and the rest of the population. The focus in recent years has been on collaboration.
Victorian Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030
https://transport.vic.gov.au/getting-around/roads/safer-roads-in-our-hands
Improving Australia’s burden of disease, Australian institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), 2018. https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/28c917f3-cb00-44dd-ba86-c13e764dea6b/Improving-Australia-s-burden-of-disease-9-01-2019.pdf.aspx
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom – read the book or watch the TV movie adapted by Thomas Rickman.
This heart-warming book, which was later made into a TV movie, depicts the experience of Morrie who suffers from motor neuron disease and offers wisdom and lessons about love to his former pupil, Mitch Albom. While moving in its own right, the story of Mitch and Morrie offers insights into the experience of illness and the ability to create something positive despite the overwhelming impact of a terminal diagnosis.
‘I awoke one morning unable to walk’, Unprotected People Reports: Polio, http://www.immunize.org/reports/report005.asp
This short story tells of the experience of contracting polio through a child’s eyes. Sharon Karber woke up one morning unable to walk, and her account tells of only being able to see her parents through a glass hospital door. As you read this story consider the milestones we have reached in eradicating polio. Consider the use of epidemiology to plot our progress in the move towards elimination of this disease.