Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Letter of transmittal
    • Editorial team and contributors
    • Contents
    • Preface
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      1. Structure and highlights of the report
      2. Health and its determinants
      3. The role of health information
      4. The Australian health system
    2. Health of Australians
      1. Health
      2. Functioning and disability
      3. Mortality
      4. Non-communicable diseases and conditions
      5. Communicable diseases
      6. National Health Priority Areas diseases and conditions
    3. Determinants of health
      1. Biomedical factors
      2. Lifestyle and behaviour
      3. Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
      4. Genetic factors
      5. Environmental factors
      6. Determinants and risk factors for NHPA diseases and conditions
    4. Population health
      1. Introduction
      2. Mothers and babies
      3. Children and young people
      4. Older people (aged 65 and over)
      5. Overseas-born people
      6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
      7. Socioeconomically disadvantaged people
      8. Rural and remote people
      9. Health status of veterans
      10. Health of prisoners
      11. National Health Priority Areas: a population-based perspective
    5. Health resources and use of services
      1. Overview of health services in Australia
      2. Health services funding and expenditure
      3. Private health insurance
      4. Health workforce
      5. Provision and use of health services
      6. Use of medications
      7. Public health interventions
      8. Health resources and use of health services for the National Health Priority Areas
    6. Health monitoring and information development
      1. Recent information developments and emerging issues
      2. Health system performance measurement
      3. Health indicators
      4. A national network for electronic health records
      5. International work on health measurement
      6. Health classifications
      7. Future directions in health information
  • End matter
    • Statistical tables
    • Methods and conventions
    • Abbreviations
    • Glossary
    • Index