8 June: Right to health

View and print a complete program for Day Two

7.45am  Sunrise sessions

Culture, health & sexuality: Working with CALD young people  View presentations

Medicines and diagnostic issues for CALD communities  View presentation

Problem gambling: innovative service models  View presentations

Registration Desk9.00am  Panel: What does the right to health mean?

Does Australia need a right to health, or is a universal health system enough?  

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10.00  Keynote: Health literacy and health rights

Over 60% of Australians are functionally health illiterate. Sharon E. Barrett (Association of Clinicians for the Underserved), author of several reports on health literacy, discusses the connections between health literacy, informed choice and patient rights. 

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10:50am  Plenary sessions

Kaliope PaxinosMulticultural mental health

From the personal to the political, we present four perspectives on mental health issues in multicultural communities. 

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Sponsored by Multicultural Mental Health Australia

A world without interpreters

If funding for interpreting services was cancelled, could bilingual workers mitigate the risks to healthcare providers? 

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Sponsored by ONCALL Interpreting and Translating Agency

Refugee health and wellbeing

More than 13,750 people from refugee backgrounds settle in Australia each year. How do they interact with the Australian health system? 

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Marketing health in a multicultural country

In a multilingual and multicultural society, is it possible to create a single message that resonates with everyone? A panel of marketing and advertising experts search for answers. 

Session description

1.10pm  Paper presentations

Building a bilingual workforce  View presentations

The multicultural mental health landscape  View presentations

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)  View presentations

Cultural competence in theory and practice  View presentations

Refugee perceptions of health and health services  View presentations

Carers  View presentations

Right to health  View presentations

Innovation in community education  View presentations

Social marketing tools and techniques  View presentations

2.10pm  Paper presentations

Language services workforce quality  View presentations

Mental health: public health  View presentations

Suicide prevention  View presentations

Cultural integrity in assessment, care and management  View presentations

Refugee young people and transitions  View presentations

Training for structural change  View presentations

Health literacy  View presentations

Innovation in community education (continued)  View presentations

Reducing the stigma of mental illness  View presentations

3.30pm  Hypothetical - eHealth and the future

How will eHealth work for disadvantage? Is it a tool for greater inclusion or greater exclusion?  Read more 

5.00pm  Rapporteur

We sum up the key themes and ideas of the day

Paella station7.00pm  Conference Dinner

View photos of Conference Dinner at ZINC@FederationSquare