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Aboriginal Health – Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service (PLAHS) community consultations

The LINKIN Health Study welcomes the opportunity to speak with Aboriginal people in Port Lincoln about their health services and community health needs.

LINKIN researchers Elizabeth Hoon and Kathryn Powell will be at the PLAHS Community Strategic Planning Day, Wednesday 28th February 2012, in Port Lincoln.  This is part of the LINKIN approach to exchange information to build a knowledge base with which to work towards improving health services in Port Lincoln.

For information about the PLAHS planning day and consultations, please contact PLAHS on 8683 0162.  For information about LINKIN, please contact Kathryn on 8313 3466 or Elizabeth on 8313 1567.

Port Lincoln, come along and talk to Kathryn Powell, LINKIN's Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Community Engagement), who will be spending time at Community House to talk to you about your experiences obtaining health care.  Share your views about how well you know what services are available in Port Lincoln, what is difficult to access, what works well and not so well for you.

           Friday 21st October - Community House - 10.30am-12.30pm, 14 Conrad Street, Port Lincoln

People of Port Lincoln we would love to hear from you!  Tell us your views on health care in Port Lincoln.  We hope you will take every opportunity to talk to us about your health care experiences and share with us the vital information we need to continue our work on the LINKIN Health Study.  LINKIN's Kathryn Powell will be at the following events to listen to you:

           Sunday 9th October - Mental Health Week Expo - 11am-3pm, Port Lincoln Foreshore (click HERE for flyer)
           Monday 10th October - LINKIN at the Library - 12noon-3pm, Port Lincoln Library (click HERE for flyer)

LINKIN Health Study research team members Kathryn Powell and Anne Wilson have been interviewed on Port Lincoln radio station 5CC.  To hear about the latest developments of the LINKIN Health Study, listen to the podcast 'On Eyre Lincoln Health Study' available on the 765-5CC website at www.5cc.com/podcasts/on-eyre.html (scroll down to Thursday's podcasts and you will find it there).

Dr Kathryn Powell, pictured below with Professor Jonathan Newbury, is LINKIN's new Community Engagement Officer.  Kathryn can be contacted by phone on (08) 8313 3466 or email at kathyn.powell@adelaide.edu.au

 
LINKIN Health Study Newsletter No 1 posted to all Port Lincoln postal addresses in June 2011.  Click HERE to download a copy of the very first newsletter.
Results will be announced 2011
Health Study Questionnaires will be collected in October 2010
Census Date 10.10.10 (October 2010)
Health Study Questionnaires will be delivered in September 2010
LINKIN Health Study 2010

Port Lincoln Show - 15 August, 2010. LINKIN Health Study stand. Fruit give-away very popular.