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