Head Lice Links

For further information about head lice please visit some of the links below. Most of these sites cite Nitpickers as a highly useful resource:

	NITPICKERS is proud to be linked to Associate Professor Rick Speare's award-winning website. Professor Speare is a leading Australian head lice researcher, based at James Cook University in Townsville, North Qld. and has accumulated an impressive amount of information that will be useful to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of head lice and the methods for their control. www.jcu.edu.au/school/phtm/PHTM/hlice/hlinfo1.htm
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES	The Victorian Government Department of Human Services has come on line in a big way with their new website: www.health.vic.gov.au/headlice/ We are all fortunate to have a State Government Department looking into headlice issues and providing great information to the public. If you are a Victorian, or even if you are not, you will find this site informative and helpful. www.health.vic.gov.au/headlice/
QUEENSLAND DEPT. OF HEALTH	Queensland Health have a site that covers head lice. Not so easy to find information and all info is in PDF form. Worth a look www.health.qld.gov.au/headlice/default.html
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DEPT HUMAN SERVICES	The Healthy Heads – Without Headlice program: providing information resources to key players in headlice control within communities & establishing a community-based approach to headlice management. http://www.dhs.sa.gov.au/pehs/topics/headlice-index.htm
NSW DEPT. HEALTH	Current statistics from NSW Health indicate that 23 per cent of the students that have participated in Nitbusters have head lice. Any one with a head can catch them - regardless of age, sex, background or how clean your hair is. And it takes only one infested head to infest a whole class. So, who you gonna call? http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/headlice/nitbusters/
LIFE MATTERS ON ABC RADIO NATIONAL	ABC radio's Life Matters program - A brief overview of a story from January 2001 - with the recommendation of the Nitbusters comb http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s442149.htm
CECC	Children's Educational Care Centre (CECC) - links page with some good information for parents ans caregivers of young children http://www.cecchildcare.com.au/page5.html
THE HEALTH REPORT ABC RADIO	The Health Report with Dr Norman Swan featured an interesting interview with Rick Speare (featured above). Has a discussion on his research. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s739577.htm
BANYULE CITY COUNCIL	The Banyule City Council (near Melbourne) is proactive on the topic of head lice management. http://www.banyule.vic.gov.au/Content.aspx?TopicID=838&DisplayType=1
CHILD AND YOUTH HEALTH	The Child and Youth Health website has a good page on head lice- though we at Nitpickers are not advocates of pesticide treatments. http://www.cyh.com/cyh/parentopics/admin_srchl2.stm?topic_id=70