Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title and verso pages
    • Letter of transmittal
    • Editorial team
    • Chapter coordinators
    • External contributors or referees
    • AIHW contributors
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Overview - Australia's Health 2006
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      1. Australia compares well
      2. Australia at a glance
      3. Understanding health
      4. Improving health and measuring performance
      5. The Australian health system: an outline
      6. National health information and how it is governed
      7. Structure of this report
    2. Health of Australians 
      1. Demographics
      2. Health and functioning
      3. Morbidity and illness
      4. Disability
      5. Causes of death
      6. Non-communicable diseases
      7. Mental health problems and illnesses
      8. Communicable diseases
      9. Injury
      10. Summarising the burden of disease
    3. Determinants of health 
      1. What are health determinants?
      2. Environmental factors
      3. Socioeconomic characteristics
      4. Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
      5. Health behaviours
      6. Biomedical factors 
    4. Health of population groups 
      1. Babies
      2. Young people aged 15-24 years
      3. Males and females aged 25-64 years
      4. Older people
      5. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 
      6. Socioeconomically disadvantaged people
      7. Overseas-born people
      8. People in rural and remote areas
      9. Veterans
      10. Prisoners
    5. Focus on child health 
      1. Health status
      2. Determinants of health
      3. Health of population groups
    6. Health resources 
      1. Health expenditure and health funding
      2. Health workforce
    7. Health services 
      1. Public health interventions
      2. Medical services
      3. Dental services
      4. Use of medications
      5. Hospital services
      6. Specialised mental health services 
      7. Alcohol and other drug treatment services
      8. Primary health care services for Indigenous Australians
      9. Allied health services
      10. Ambulance services and the Royal Flying Doctor Service
      11. Community health services
      12. Palliative care services
      13. National Diabetes Services Scheme
      14. Hearing services
      15. Family planning
      16. Complementary and alternative health services
      17. Aids and equipment
  • End matter
    • Statistical tables 
    • Methods and conventions 
    • Abbreviations 
    • Glossary 
    • National Health Sector Performance Indicators 2003 
    • Index