Healthy living A to Z

Safe sex

• Talk soon. Talk often. A guide for parents talking to their kids about sex

School health

• Child development services
• Community child health nurses
• Food for kids
• School health services
• Starting or moving child care, kindergarten or school – immunisation requirements
• Ten top tips for a great start to school
• Treating head lice
• Year 10 school-based immunisation program
• Year 7 school-based immunisation program

Screening

• Information collected by the Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies
• Tests for pregnant women
• Tests for you and your baby during pregnancy
• Tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies

Seasonal health

• Emergency treatment of drinking water supplies
• Hazards after cyclones, floods and other disasters
• Health effects of heat – who is most at risk?
• Heat and what to wear
• Heat and your pets
• Heat health advice
• In and around your home after cyclones, floods and other disasters
• Influenza (flu) vaccine
• Influenza (flu) vaccine for children
• Influenza (flu) vaccine for people aged 65 years and over
• Influenza (flu) vaccine in pregnancy – what expectant mothers need to know
• Managing health conditions during cyclone season
• Minimising the risk of a Legionella infection at home
• Protect yourself from viruses
• Recovering after the flood – clean-up for householders
• Safe use and storage of chemicals for your pool
• Sleeping in very hot weather
• Stay healthy when it's hot – translated fact sheets
• Staying healthy in winter
• Swimming pools and spas
• Tips for keeping your spa or pool healthy
• Wastewater after cyclones, floods, bushfires and other disasters
• Water safety after cyclones, floods and other disasters

Security

• Personal security for your baby

Septic tanks

• Understanding Septic Tank Systems

Sewage

• Sewage spills

Sexual health

• Condoms
• Contraception
• Contraceptive implants
• Contraceptive pill (the pill)
• Diaphragms
• Emergency contraception
• Fertility awareness (natural family planning)
• Injectable hormonal contraceptive
• Intra-uterine device (IUD)
• Relationships, sex and other stuff
• Safe sex
• Sterilisation
• Talk soon. Talk often. A guide for parents talking to their kids about sex
• WA Sexual Health and Blood-borne Viruses Advisory Committee (WA SHaBBVAC)

Shingles

• Shingles vaccine

Sleeping

• Co-sleeping and the risks to your baby’s health
• Safe infant sleeping
• Sleep 0 – 3 months
• Sleep 3 – 6 months
• Sleep 6 months – 3 years
• Sleep and your baby
• Sleeping difficulties

Smoking

• Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes)
• Passive smoking and your health
• Smokefree between the flags at patrolled beaches
• Smokefree in vehicles with children
• Smokefree outdoor eating areas
• Smokefree within 10 metres of playground equipment
• Smoking and surgery
• Smoking and tobacco
• Smoking in public places

Spina bifida

• Information collected by the Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies
• Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies

Sterilisation

• Sterilisation

Stigma

• Anger coping strategies
• Assertive communication
• Stigma

Stroke

• Living with a chronic condition
• Men’s health – good physical health for blokes
• Support for people living with a chronic condition
• What Aboriginal men need to know about alcohol
• What Aboriginal women need to know about alcohol

Summer health

• Health effects of heat – who is most at risk?
• Heat
• Heat and what to wear
• Heat and your pets
• Heat health advice
• Minimising the risk of a Legionella infection at home
• Stay healthy when it's hot – translated fact sheets

Surgery

• Smoking and surgery

Swimming

• How safe are natural waterways?
• Safe use and storage of chemicals for your pool
• Swimming pools and spas
• Tips for healthy swimming
• Tips for keeping your spa or pool healthy

Syringe

• Needle and syringe programs
• Needle and syringe programs in WA
• Safe disposal of needles and syringes for people who inject drugs
• Treating needlestick injuries
• Where to find needle and syringe programs in WA