Health-related online resources

Websites

At Ease mental health website

This website has been developed to help you or someone you know recognise signs of mental health problems and act to improve and maintain mental health and wellbeing

Information about DVA's alcohol management project, standard drink guide, health and lifestyle, counselling services and help lines. Includes self-help guides to drinking assessment and low-risk drinking.

HEALTHInsite website

Through this site you will find a wide range of up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma.

MRI scanning

MRI is a sophisticated and expensive technology. In order for an MRI service to receive a Medicare rebate, the scan must be requested by a specialist medical practitioner or consultant physician, be conducted on a Medicare-eligible MRI unit by a Medicare-eligible provider, and be an MRI service listed in the MBS.

DVA makes payments in accordance with the Medicare Benefits Schedule; therefore, we cannot reimburse the cost of scans performed on non-eligible MRI machines. If you have been referred to an MRI centre which is not eligible for Medicare benefits, you may wish to ask your medical practitioner to refer you to an eligible centre.

See: Medicare-eligible MRI centres (Department of Health & Ageing website)

DVA health-related publications

See: Health publications on this website