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Subjects: Health

  • Drug Use and Misuse

    This program explores issues such as: What are drugs and how are they used, misused or abused? What is the definition of drug abuse? What types of substances are used, and which are legal/illegal? What are the effects – positive and negative – on personal health and society? How can we cope with drug problems? How can we get help? What are the safe alternatives to drugs?

  • Decisions, Decisions: Family Food Choices

    While there are many influences on our food decisions, the family is probably the most important. In this program, we spend time with a not atypical family: a husband and wife and their teenage and pre-teenage children. We see who makes the decisions, why and with what effect, and we see how the family’s thinking about nutrition is fairly deeply ingrained, sometimes for the worst, sometimes for the better.

  • Health Emergencies in the Classroom

    In every school there are students who suffer from medical conditions. Because of this, it is vital that teachers and other school staff are fully prepared to deal with a medical emergency. This program investigates some of the more common health emergencies that
    occur in classrooms and how best to treat them. An informed look at the treatments for asthma, diabetes, anaphylaxis and epilepsy and essential professional development viewing for teachers.

  • Introducing Tobacco – Risks, Laws, and Habits

    For over 50 years now we have known that smoking kills – yet millions of people continue to court disease and death. Why? Tobacco is big business – insidious, wily and determined to hook the vulnerable, and to obscure the devastating effects of their deadly merchandise. This program delivers the facts about tobacco smoking and the effects it has on both users and non-users. Featuring international experts and a dramatized story of a young girl who loses her father to lung cancer, this program is a sobering, informative and persuasive program that addresses the root causes, laws, and short and long-term effects of this killer product.

  • Introducing Cannabis – Risks, Laws, and Habits

    Cannabis is often regarded as a relatively safe, albeit illegal drug, compared with hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Recently however, there is a growing realization that, for some people at least, cannabis is anything but safe. This program looks at the effect of cannabis on the brain and the devastating consequences for some users.

  • Not Fatal Butt….: The Effect of Just One Cigarette

    With the aid of brilliant graphics, the program shows the increase in body tension, the effect of nicotine, rise in blood pressure, slowing of circulation and the decrease in lung capacity.

  • Stress: The Survival Guide

    Explains what stress is and how to keep it within limits. It outlines easy relaxation techniques and coping strategies.

  • Surviving Student Stress

    This program explores study stress explaining what it is, what causes it and what are some typical signs or symptoms to be wary of. Students, parents and teachers are also shown some very practical ways to help ease the load, including: the importance of a stable home and study environment, good time management and planning skills, a healthy eating and posture, exercise, rest and sleep, and the value of a strong support network. The video was produced with input from Melbourne University’s Learning Skills Unit, the Australian Physiotherapy Association and the Bendigo Health Care Group.

  • Talking Gender

    How is gender created? This program studies the effect on gender by: the media and society, education and careers, family and the home.

  • Friendship in Adolescence

    This is a ‘how-to’ guide for making and maintaining friendships aimed at middle years students.