How it works
Designed for our users
Our website is designed to align with the Digital Transformation Agency's Digital Experience Policy.
The website is based on extensive user research and feedback. We have worked to understand what information you need when you come to our website.
Our structure
Our website is structured around what makes sense to you – our website visitors, and not around how the department works.
Information is organised into the following areas:
- health topics – all our information, organised by topic
- our work – all of our initiatives, programs and campaigns
- news – our news and media
- resources – all of our publications, tools, videos in one place
- corporate content – information about us
- contacts – contact for us and support.
Organising our content in this way helps you to find it more easily. It also helps us remove duplications and display content consistently, so you know what to expect.
Our content
We apply consistent government style based on the Australian Government's Style Manual. This helps us to:
- place the most important information at the top of the page
- use plain English
- make sure our information is current and correct
- provide information in different ways, such as with videos and infographics
- use short paragraphs, clear headings and lists so content is easy to scan and read
- make sure we're not repeating content
- make sure our content is accessible
- use language understood by our users.
Our navigation
There are 3 ways to look for information on our website. You can use:
- our main navigation menu – available at the top of every page to browse our entire website
- our side navigation menu – available within content to browse within sections
- tags – available at the bottom of our content pages to browse across health topics.
Our search
Our search helps you to:
- find search results that are more relevant
- narrow down your search results using filters.
Continual improvement
We want to continually improve our website. You can help us by providing feedback through our feedback form – you can fill this in at any time to tell us what you think of the website.
Older versions of health.gov.au
The health.gov.au website is continuously updated. Information is constantly added, updated and archived to make sure it is up to date and relevant to our users. You can use the National Library of Australia's Trove archive to find archived content and older versions of this website.