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
    1. Introduction 1
      1. Understanding health
      2. The role of health information
      3. The Australian health system
      4. Structure of the report
    2. Health of Australians 1
      1. Aspects of health
      2. Functioning and disability
      3. Morbidity and illness 1
      4. Injuries
      5. Mortality
      6. Non-communicable diseases 1
      7. Communicable diseases
    3. Determinants of health 1
      1. Biomedical factors
      2. Genetic factors
      3. Health behaviours 1
      4. Socio-economic characteristics
      5. Environmental factors
    4. Population health 1
      1. Mothers and babies
      2. Children and young people
      3. Overseas-born people
      4. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      5. Socioeconomically disadvantaged people 1
      6. Health of people in rural and remote areas
      7. Health status of veterans
      8. Health of prisoners
      9. Health conditions of people with a disability
    5. Health resources 1
      1. Introduction
      2. Health expenditure
      3. Funding of health expenditure
      4. Health workforce 1
    6. Health services 1
      1. Hospitals
      2. Private medical practice
      3. Dental services
      4. Specialised mental health services 1
      5. Use of medications
      6. Alcohol and other drug treatment services
      7. Primary health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 1
      8. National Diabetes Services Scheme
      9. Hearing services
      10. Family planning services
      11. Ambulance services and the Royal Flying Doctor Service
      12. Other community health services
      13. Complementary and alternative health services
      14. Public health interventions
    7. National health information and its development 1
      1. New governance for national health information
      2. National health information development priorities
      3. Health indicators
      4. Information development in several areas
      5. Major national survey initiatives
      6. A network of electronic health information
      7. Future directions
    8. Health of older Australians 1
      1. Introduction
      2. Demography
      3. Mortality
      4. Wellbeing
      5. Disability
      6. Health risk factors
      7. Use of selected services
      8. Health expenditure on diseases of older Australians
      9. Selected conditions
      10. Summary
  • End matter
    • Appendix: National Health Priority Areas 1, 3
    • Statistical tables 1, 3
    • Methods and conventions 1
    • Abbreviations
    • Glossary
    • Index 1