Table of contents

  • Preface
  • 1 The health of Australians
    • 1.1 Health and its determinants
    • 1.2 Measures of ill-health
      • 1.2.1 Mortality
      • 1.2.2 Admission to hospital
      • 1.2.3 Seeing a doctor
      • 1.2.4 Disability and handicap
      • 1.2.5 Cost of illness
    • 1.3 Health and ill-health of special populations
      • 1.3.1 Mothers and infants
      • 1.3.2 Migrants
      • 1.3.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
      • 1.3.4 Residents of rural Australia
      • 1.3.5 Employed people
    • 1.4 Factors which influence health
      • 1.4.1 Nutritional status
      • 1.4.2 Other major risk factors for disease
    • 1.5 National health goals and targets
  • 2 Important causes of ill-health in Australia
    • 2.1 Communicable diseases
    • 2.2 Cancer
    • 2.3 Cardiovascular disease
    • 2.4 Dental disease
    • 2.5 Perinatal health
    • 2.6 Transport-related injury
    • 2.7 Suicide and other self-injury
  • 3 Health service organisation, funding and expenditure
    • 3.1 Structure and administration of health services in Australia
    • 3.2 Health service funding and expenditure
    • 3.3 Private health insurance
    • 3.4 Pharmaceuticals
    • 3.5 Health technologies
  • 4 Health care resources and their use
    • 4.1 Health personnel
    • 4.2 Institutional facilities
    • 4.3 Use of hospitals
    • 4.4 Waiting lists
    • 4.5 Medical services
    • 4.6 Dental services
    • 4.7 Health technologies
      • 4.7.1 Use of health technologies
      • 4.7.2 Emerging health technologies
      • 4.7.3 Technologies in aged care
  • 5 Health information and statistics: sources, developments and deficiencies
    • 5.1 National Health Information Agreement
    • 5.2 Commonwealth agencies and national health statistics
    • 5.3 National Death Index
    • 5.4 Health Statistics for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders
    • 5.5 Developments in injury surveillance
    • 5.6 Developments in health outcomes measurement
    • 5.7 Deficiencies in statistics on health of Australians
    • 5.8 Deficiencies in statistics on-health care funding, resources and use
    • 5.9 Towards an optimised health information and statistics system
  • Statistical tables
  • Appendix
    • Methods and conventions
  • Commonly used abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Index