Chronic Disease
Clinical Guidelines
The Refugee Health Guide provides information
about Chronic non-communicable diseases in adults HERE
Services
- ECCQ – Chronic Disease Program including My Health for Life Program
- My Health For Life CALD Program
- Mater Refugee and Asylum Seeker Cardiovascular Clinic (RASCC)
Translated Resources
- Multicultural Diabetes Portal – provides health professionals with a broad range of translated diabetes resources
- Heart Foundation – Provides resources in your language
- The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (includes serve information) – Pictorial and translated into various languages
- Healthy Lifestyle Resources
- Diabetes Patient Education Materials – Ethno Med
More Information
- Between health and faith: managing type 2 diabetes during Ramadan
- RACGP
- Australian Heart Foundation
- Nutritional guidelines (includes patient resources)
- Chronic obstructive airways disease
- Physical activity guidelines
- Physical activity assessment
Education events
Providing care during COVID-19: QLD webinar series #3 Facilitator: Dr Katelin Haynes Speakers: Dr Margaret Kay, Burglind Liddle, Marianne Black, Linh Nguyen
Watch in here.
Refugee Health Chronic Disease (2018) – The evening included presentations from:
- Dr Karam Kostner, Director of Cardiology, Mater Hospital & Refugee and Asylum Seeker Cardiovascular Clinic
- Dr Margaret Kay, GP and Multicultural Health Clinical Lead, Brisbane South PHN
- Ms. Louise Lee, Refugee Health Practice Nurse Clinical Lead Brisbane South PHN
- Ms. Hong Do – Ethnic Communities Council Qld
- Members from the Brisbane Refugee Health Advisory Group