Welcome to Healthtalk Australia
Healthtalk Australia is the only research-based digital repository of health experiences in Australia.
Healthtalk Australia’s resources can be used by patients and carers to understand the lived experience of particular illnesses and learn how to navigate complex medical care health systems from people who may share similar experiences. The resources are also helpful for medical and allied health professionals and educators.
About Healthtalk Australia
Healthtalk Australia is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of Australians by harnessing the power of stories, rigorous research methods, and the internet to understand and share experiences of:
- what it’s really like to have a particular health condition or to care for someone with that condition, and
- what is and isn't working in our health and social care system.
We use proven qualitative research methods to collect and analyse in-depth
narratives on film and audio from:
- people experiencing various health or related conditions,
- carers, and
- health professionals.
The only research-based digital repository of health experiences in Australia, Healthtalk Australia’s resources provide support and information to other patients and carers, and information to health professionals and health educators.
DIPEx International
Healthtalk Australia is a member of DIPEx International, a network of academic researchers in 13 countries around the world who produce digital health resources based on rigorous research into experiences of major illness and health-related conditions from the perspective of patients and family members. DIPEx International was established in 2013 and its members use the methodology developed by the Health Experiences Research Group at the University of Oxford and the DIPEx charity, which together publish the award-winning healthtalk.org website.
