Table of contents

  • letter of transmittal
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The health status of Australians
    • 2.1 Life expectancy
    • 2.2 Death rates
    • 2.3 Hospitalisation
    • 2.4 Disability and handicap
    • 2.5 Congenital malformations
    • 2.6 Dental health
    • 2.7 Health differentials
  • 3 Today's epidemics
    • 3.1 Today's epidemics: Injury and poisoning
    • 3.2 Today's epidemics: cardiovascular disease
    • 3.3 Today's epidemics: cancer
    • 3.4 Today's epidemics: AIDS
    • 3.5 Asthma: a new epidemic?
    • 3.6 Drug abuse: another epidemic?
  • 4 Australia's health goals and strategies
    • 4.1 Inequalities in health
    • 4.2 Health goals and targets
    • 4.3 The National Better Health Program
    • 4.4 Monitoring progress towards goals and targets
    • 4.5 Other national health Initiatives
  • 5 Health services in Australia
    • 5.1 Use of hospitals and other related Institutions
    • 5.2 Medical services
    • 5.3 Pharmaceutical drugs
    • 5.4 Health personnel
    • 5.5 Health expenditure
    • 5.6 Private health insurance
  • 6 Health care technologies
    • 6.1 Introduction and diffusion of health technologies
    • 6.2 The impact of health technologies
    • 6.3 Health technology assessment
    • 6.4 Usage data for selected technologies
    • 6.5 Case studies
  • 7 Health: the quality of survival in older age
    • 7.1 The changing social and economic fabric
    • 7.2 The health status of older Australians
    • 7.3 Health and support services for older people
    • 7.4 Assessment of health quality in later life
  • 8 Review of developments in health statistics
    • 8.1 Organisational changes
    • 8.2 Developments relating to individual collections
    • 8.3 Gaps in health statistics
  • acknowledgments
  • glossary
  • list of figures
  • list of tables
  • index