A brief guide to your health rights

The information sheets on the rights will give you information about such things as:

• Free services and ways of reducing health costs
• Informed consent
• Your rights with doctors and dentists
• Your rights with tatooists and skin piercers
• Accident Compensation and how to make a claim
• Drugs and alcohol

We currently have a small selection of web pages that contain general information only about legal issues and health matters. These include information about counselling, STD’s, contraception, smoking and glue sniffing. Click on any of the titles to the right for more information on the subject that interests you. If you can’t find what your looking for phone, fax or email us.

For more general health information you may be better to do a websearch for specific health information websites such as the followingfollowing: http://www.cyh.com/SubDefault.aspx?p=160Young Adult Health

You can also get health information on sites such as URGE or YouthLine