Clinicians Hub resources

Evidence-based tools, guidelines and resources for health professionals and patients to support the prevention, early intervention, and management of chronic diseases.

BRAVE Framework

For adults

This tool assists with initiating sensitive conversations about weight and health behaviours with adults.

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For children and families

This tool assists with initiating sensitive conversations about growth, weight and health behaviours with children and families.

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Her Heart: CALD and migrant women community

A webpage that provides tailored heart health information for women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and migrant backgrounds, including barriers, and prevention and early intervention strategies.
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Her Heart: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander cardiac health information

A webpage that provides information on cardiovascular disease risk factors, prevention strategies and early intervention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
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Her Heart: Heart disease risks and prevention

This webpage provides practical strategies and resources to support the reduction of cardiovascular disease risk factors in women, such as smoking, alcohol, weight, physical activity, and mental health.
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Australian guideline and calculator for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk

A website that outlines the cardiovascular disease risk guideline and calculator that provides health professionals with support to identify, communicate and manage cardiovascular disease risk.
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Factsheets

13YARN: Telephone support and resources

A range of fact sheets and 24-hour telephone crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experiencing challenges related to mental and emotional wellbeing.
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Getting healthy before pregnancy – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

This flipchart has been co-designed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth to improve knowledge and understanding of preconception health. It outlines key conditions and risk behaviours that can affect the fertility of men and women, the health of a woman and her unborn baby during pregnancy, and the future child’s health.
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eLearning

Preconception health promotion in primary care

A preconception eLearning module designed to improve capacity of nurses, maternal and child health nurses and midwives working in primary health care settings. It provides concise and practical information to promote preconception health in their practice.
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Factsheets

Planning for pregnancy

A pamphlet to support women planning a pregnancy to make positive changes to their preconception health including areas of nutrition, smoking and alcohol cessation. (PDF, 1.1MB)
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Guidelines

Healthy lifestyle for mothers: Pre-conception

Clinical guidelines that provide healthy lifestyle advice during the pre-conception period.
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Guidelines

Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice (Red book)

The Red Book is designed to provide the general practice team with guidance on opportunistic and proactive preventive care. It provides a comprehensive and concise set of recommendations for patients with additional information about tailoring advice depending on risk and need. (PDF, 3.0MB)
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Academic literature

Risk-taking behaviours in adolescence

The aim of this paper is to provide an update on risk-taking behaviours in adolescence and highlight tips for re-orienting general practice towards youth-friendly preventive care for adolescents.
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Alcohol and drug clinical advisory service for health professionals

A free telephone support service for health professionals in Queensland, providing clinical advice regarding the management of patients with alcohol and other drug concerns.
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Our programs

Health behaviour change programs for your patients

Explore referral pathways to support prevention, early intervention and management of chronic diseases.

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10,000 Steps

10,000 Steps is an Australian physical activity program that uses step tracking technology to encourage everyday movement. Delivered digitally via app, it supports individuals, workplaces, and community groups with personalised goal setting, progress monitoring, and social challenges to build sustainable active habits.

My health for life

My health for life is a Queensland Government-funded chronic disease prevention program offering free health coaching to adults at risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Through six sessions in flexible formats, participants receive personalised guidance on lifestyle behaviours proven to reduce disease risk.

Mother and son look at Podsquad on an ipad

Podsquad

Podsquad is a free app-based health program designed for children aged 5–12 and their families. Using behavioural science and play based learning, it helps families build lasting healthy habits across nutrition, physical activity, and sleep through engaging, reward-driven activities both online and in everyday life.

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