Table of contents
- Preliminary material 1
- Title and verso pages
- Letter of transmittal
- Editorial team and contributors
- Contents
- Editorial team
- Chapter coordinators
- External contributors/Referees
- AIHW contributors
- Preface
- Overview-Australia's Health 2004
- Sections
- Introduction 1
- Understanding health
- The role of health information
- The Australian health system
- Structure of the report
- Health of Australians 1
- Determinants of health 1
- Biomedical factors
- Genetic factors
- Health behaviours 1
- Socio-economic characteristics
- Environmental factors
- Population health 1
- Mothers and babies
- Children and young people
- Overseas-born people
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Socioeconomically disadvantaged people 1
- Health of people in rural and remote areas
- Health status of veterans
- Health of prisoners
- Health conditions of people with a disability
- Health resources 1
- Introduction
- Health expenditure
- Funding of health expenditure
- Health workforce 1
- Health services 1
- Hospitals
- Private medical practice
- Dental services
- Specialised mental health services 1
- Use of medications
- Alcohol and other drug treatment services
- Primary health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 1
- National Diabetes Services Scheme
- Hearing services
- Family planning services
- Ambulance services and the Royal Flying Doctor Service
- Other community health services
- Complementary and alternative health services
- Public health interventions
- National health information and its development 1
- New governance for national health information
- National health information development priorities
- Health indicators
- Information development in several areas
- Major national survey initiatives
- A network of electronic health information
- Future directions
- Health of older Australians 1
- Introduction
- Demography
- Mortality
- Wellbeing
- Disability
- Health risk factors
- Use of selected services
- Health expenditure on diseases of older Australians
- Selected conditions
- Summary
- Introduction 1
- End matter