New Brief Interventions for a Healthy Lifestyle eLearning suite

Insight, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, and the Preventive Health Branch, Queensland Health, in partnership with Health and Wellbeing Queensland, are excited to launch a new suite of eLearning on how to conduct a range of brief interventions to encourage clients and patients to have healthier lifestyles.

The modules are suitable for all health and community service workers in all settings and contain modules on:

nutrition and physical activity
oral health
smoking
alcohol and other drugs.

There are also specific modules targeting pregnancy and early life.

The modules are designed for generalist health and community service professionals. To access the full toolkit click here.

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