Healthy living A to Z

HACC – Home and Community Care

• HACC – how to make a complaint
• HACC – information about fees
• HACC – your rights and responsibilities
• Home and Community Care (HACC) transition

Hand hygiene

• Hand hygiene

Having a baby

• Advice for dads of breastfed babies
• Advice for parents with a new baby – care for yourself with a little TLC
• Alcohol and drug use while breastfeeding
• Baby’s first foods – Healthy eating from around 6 months
• Balancing housework and baby
• Being the best dad you can be
• Breastfeeding
• Breastmilk and infant formula
• Caring for your nipples when breastfeeding
• Childbirth education classes
• Common breastfeeding issues
• Community child health nurses
• Co-sleeping and the risks to your baby’s health
• Crying baby
• Diagnostic tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Diet, supplements and medications during pregnancy
• Donating your breast milk
• Drug and alcohol use during pregnancy
• Ectopic pregnancy
• Expressing and storing breast milk
• Family Birth Centre Midwifery Group Practice – a special beginning
• Fertility and lifestyle
• Food safety for breastfeeding
• Getting started with breastfeeding
• Giving birth and going home – information for pregnant women experiencing drug and alcohol issues
• Having a baby at Armadale Health Service
• Having a baby at Bentley Hospital
• Having a baby at Joondalup Health Campus
• Having a baby at King Edward Memorial Hospital
• Having a baby at Osborne Park Hospital
• Having a baby at St John of God Midland Public Hospital
• Having a baby at the Family Birth Centre – King Edward Memorial Hospital
• Having a baby in a public country hospital in WA
• Having a baby in a public hospital
• Having a baby in private care
• Having a baby in the Goldfields
• Having a baby in the Great Southern
• Having a baby in the Kimberley
• Having a baby in the Midwest
• Having a baby in the Pilbara
• Having a baby in the South West
• Having a baby in the Wheatbelt
• Healthy eating for breastfeeding
• How do I know if I am pregnant?
• How new dads can support their partner
• How to support yourself as a new mum
• Is it safe to use drugs or drink alcohol when pregnant?
• Labour and birth using water
• Listeria infection
• Managing your baby's withdrawal symptoms
• Managing your drug and alcohol use during pregnancy
• Midwifery Group Practice
• Miscarriage
• Money, budgets and saving when you have a new baby
• Morning sickness
• My baby is overdue – what now?
• Next birth after a caesarean
• Personal security for your baby
• Personal stories of depression and anxiety in parents with new babies
• Physical recovery after pregnancy loss
• Planning to get pregnant
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding while taking warfarin
• Pregnancy and pesticides
• Pregnancy loss
• Reasons for pregnancy loss
• Safe infant sleeping
• Safe preparation and use of infant formula
• Screening tests in the first 3 months of pregnancy
• Screening tests in the second 3 months of pregnancy
• Signs of a pregnancy loss
• Signs your breast milk is flowing
• Sleep 0 – 3 months
• Sleep 3 – 6 months
• Sophie's story – personal stories of depression and anxiety in parents with new babies
• Sterilising teats, bottles and dummies
• Stopping breastfeeding after the loss of your baby or child
• Support services for pregnancy loss available at King Edward Memorial Hospital
• Tests for pregnant women
• Tests for you and your baby during pregnancy
• Tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Time-out for dads with a new baby
• Time-out for mums with a new baby
• Tips for getting professional help for perinatal anxiety or depression
• Tips for mums with a new baby – how to support your partner
• Treatment options for miscarriage
• Ultrasound during pregnancy
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin D for pregnant women and new mothers
• When information overload strikes – how new parents can filter information
• Which public maternity hospital in Perth will I be referred to?
• Will my baby experience withdrawal?
• Women and Newborn Drug and Alcohol Service (WANDAS)
• Your baby’s newborn bloodspot screening test
• Your emotional recovery after pregnancy loss
• Your maternity care options

Hazards

• Asbestos
• Asbestos – carpet underlay
• Asbestos – contact details
• Asbestos – contamination of soil
• Asbestos – maintenance, removal and renovations at home
• Buying, using, storing and disposing of household chemicals
• Hazards after cyclones, floods and other disasters
• Storing and disposing of medications
• Understanding the labels on household chemicals
• Using household chemicals safely

Head lice

• Head lice
• Treating head lice

Heart attack

• Coronary arteries

Heart conditions

• Coronary arteries
• What Aboriginal men need to know about alcohol

Heat stress

• Health effects of heat – who is most at risk?
• Heat
• Heat and what to wear
• Heat and your pets
• Heat health advice
• Sleeping in very hot weather
• Stay healthy when it's hot – translated fact sheets

Hepatitis A

• What Aboriginal men need to know about alcohol
• What Aboriginal women need to know about alcohol

Hepatitis B

• Needle and syringe programs
• Needle and syringe programs in WA
• Safe disposal of needles and syringes
• Treating needlestick injuries
• What Aboriginal men need to know about alcohol
• What Aboriginal women need to know about alcohol
• Where to find needle and syringe programs in WA

Hepatitis C

• Needle and syringe programs
• Needle and syringe programs in WA
• Safe disposal of needles and syringes
• Treating needlestick injuries
• What Aboriginal men need to know about alcohol
• What Aboriginal women need to know about alcohol
• Where to find needle and syringe programs in WA

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)

• Contact tracing for sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses
• HIV and AIDS
• Living with HIV – responsibilities to yourself and others
• Needle and syringe programs
• Safe disposal of needles and syringes
• Treating needlestick injuries

Home and household

• Asbestos
• Asbestos – carpet underlay
• Asbestos – contact details
• Asbestos – contamination of soil
• Asbestos – maintenance, removal and renovations at home
• Bed bugs
• Biting midges
• Bore water
• Buying, using, storing and disposing of household chemicals
• Domestic wastewater overflow – cleaning up
• Domestic wastewater overflow – legal powers and responsibilities
• Domestic wastewater overflows
• Domestic wastewater overflow – who should respond?
• Emergency treatment of drinking water supplies
• Feral pigeon control
• Fleas
• Guide to selecting a pest management business
• Hazards after cyclones, floods and other disasters
• Household wastewater and health risks
• In and around your home after cyclones, floods and other disasters
• March flies
• Minimising the risk of a Legionella infection at home
• Pregnancy and pesticides
• Protect your health – keep rats under control
• Recovering after the flood – clean-up for householders
• Safe use and storage of chemicals for your pool
• Staying healthy in winter
• Stay safe around copper chrome arsenate treated wood
• Storing and disposing of medications
• Swimming pools and spas
• Tips for keeping your spa or pool healthy
• Understanding the labels on household chemicals
• Using household chemicals safely
• Water filters for your home
• Water tanks on your property

Hospital treatments

• Transition Care Program (TCP)

HPV vaccine

• Cervical cancer
• Contraception
• HPV vaccine
• Year 7 school-based immunisation program

Human papilloma virus (HPV)

• Cervical cancer
• Cervical screening
• Cervical Screening Test
• Contraception
• HPV vaccine
• Understanding your Cervical Screening Test results
• Where can I have a Cervical Screening Test?
• Year 7 school-based immunisation program