Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (30K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Introduction
      • Background
      • The need for health indicators
      • Defining and measuring change
      • Structure of the report
      • Limitations of the report
  • Chapters
    • Health status (275K PDF)
      • Mortality and survival
      • Disability and handicap
      • Perinatal and infant health
      • Child health
      • Injury
      • Interpersonal violence
      • Chronic diseases
      • Communicable diseases
      • Mental health
      • Dental health
    • Aboriginal health (30K PDF)
      • Mortality and survival
      • Perinatal and infant health
      • Chronic diseases
      • Population trends
    • Health determinants and risk factors (134K PDF)
      • Population trends
      • Fertility
      • Economic environment
      • Anthropometric measures
      • Physiological measures
      • Food and nutrition
      • Physical activity
      • Drug use
    • Health resources (47K PDF)
      • Health expenditure
      • Health labour force
      • Hospitals
    • Health service use (56K PDF)
      • Medical services
      • Dental services
      • Hospital use
      • Secondary prevention
      • Aged care
  • End matter (42K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Age-adjustment
      • Appendix B: Data sources
    • Abbreviations and acronyms
    • Glossary of terms
    • References and useful publications