Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Commonly used abbreviations
- PART 1
- Australia's health and health services
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Overview of the health of Australians
- 1.2 Overview of Australia's health services
- 1.3 Australian health care arrangements: an overview
- 1.4 Factors influencing health
- 2 The health of Australians
- 2.1 Health indicators
- 2.2 Mortality
- 2.3 Sickness and disease
- 2.4 Disability and handicap
- 2.5 Risk factors
- 2.6 Selected health topics
- 3 Health care funding, resources and utilisation
- 3.1 Health expenditure
- 3.2 Private health insurance
- 3.3 Health personnel
- 3.4 Institutional facilities
- 3.5 Use of hospitals and other institutions
- 3.6 Medical services
- 3.7 Health technologies
- 3.8 Pharmaceutical drugs
- 3.9 Health promotion and disease prevention
- 4 Health differentials
- 4.1 Differentials in health status
- 4.2 Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health differentials
- 4.3 Differentials in dental health
- 4.4 Differentials in risk factors
- PART 2
- Health statistics in Australia
- Health statistics: sources, developments and deficiencies
- 1 Introduction
- 2 National Committee on Health and Vital Statistics
- 3 Towards a National Health Information Agreement and Strategy
- 4 Major agencies involved in the development of national health statistics
- 5 Sources of health statistics in Australia
- 6 Statistics on health status and risk factors
- 7 Statistics on health care funding, resources and utilisation
- 8 Health statistics for specific population groups
- Statistical tables
- Population
- Fertility and pregnancy outcome
- Mortality
- Hospital morbidity and utilisation
- Other health conditions . . .
- Health expenditure
- Health labourforce
- Use of professional services
- Health technology
- Appendix 1
- Figure tables
- Appendix 2
- Methods and conventions
- Glossary
- Index