Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page
    • Verso title page
    • Transmittal letter
    • Editorial team, contributors and referees
    • Contents
    • Preface
  • Chapters
    1. Introduction
      1. Health and its determinants
      2. Implications of improving health
      3. The role of health information
      4. The Australian health system
    2. The health of Australians
      1. Dimensions and components of health
        1. Life expectancy and longevity
        2. Self-reported health
        3. Fitness
        4. Oral health
        5. Sexual health
        6. Immunological health
      2. Burden of disease and injury
        1. Mortality
        2. Illness, morbidity and health conditions
        3. Disability
        4. Australian Burden of Disease and Injury Study
      3. NHPA diseases and conditions
        Please note there has been a correction to the legend of figure2.28, page72, where items were transposed in the original version of this publication.
        1. Cardiovascular disease
        2. Cancers
        3. Injuries
        4. Mental problems and disorders
        5. Diabetes
        6. Asthma
      4. Other major chronic disases and conditions
        1. Chronicobstructive pulmonary disease
        2. Arthitis and other musculoskeletal disorders
        3. Nervous system disorders
        4. End-stage renel (kidney) disease
        5. Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases
      5. Communicable diseases
    3. Determinants of health
      1. Environmental factors
      2. Genetic factors
      3. Attitudes and beliefs
      4. Lifestyle and behaviour
      5. Biomedical factors
    4. Health and determinants in population groups
      1. Mothers and babies
      2. Children and younger people
      3. Men and women aged 25 and over
      4. Older people
      5. Overseas-born
      6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      7. Socioeconomically disadvantaged
      8. Rural and remote populations
    5. Health resources and use of services
      1. Health services funding and expenditure
      2. Cost of diseases
      3. Private health insurance
      4. Health workforce
      5. Supply and use of health services
      6. Use of medications
      7. Health promotion and prevention
      8. Health research in Australia
    6. Health service strategies, performance and monitoring
      1. Issues in health services planning
      2. Emerging and contemporary issues
      3. Performance indicators
      4. Service delivery monitoring
    7. Challenges for national health information
      1. The National Health Information Development Plan
      2. Newly emerging information challenges
      3. Major gaps in this report
    8. Changes in Australia's disease profile: a view of the twentieth century
      1. General trends in health over the twentieth century
      2. Trends in major causes of death in Australia
  • End matter
    • Statistical tables
      • Population
      • Fertility and pregnancy
      • Mortality
      • Infectious diseases
      • Cancer
      • Oral health
      • Cardiovascular risk factors
      • Use of hospitals
      • Health expenditure
      • Health labour force
      • Use of professional services
      • National Health Priority Areas
    • Methods and conventions
    • Abbreviations
    • Glossary
    • Index