Table of contents
- Preliminary material (604KB PDF)
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Preface
- Key points-Australia's health 2008
- Sections
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- Understanding health
- Australia at a glance
- Australia compares well
- Improving health and measuring performance
- The Australian health system: an outline
- National health information
- How this report is presented
- The health of Australians-an overview (472KB PDF)
- Key points
- Australia's changing population
- Self-assessment of health
- Long-term conditions
- Functioning and disability
- Causes of death
- Burden of disease
- Whose health? How population groups vary (431KB PDF)
- Key points
- Socioeconomically disadvantaged people
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- People in rural and remote areas
- Prisoners
- Overseas-born people
- Australian Defence Force members and veterans
- Determinants: keys to prevention (500KB PDF)
- Key points
- What are health determinants?
- Environmental factors
- Socioeconomic characteristics
- Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
- Health behaviours
- Biomedical factors
- Diseases and injury (585KB PDF)
- Key points
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes
- Chronic kidney disease
- Chronic respiratory diseases
- Arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions
- Dementia
- Mental health problems and illnesses
- Oral health problems
- Injury
- Infectious diseases
- Health across the life stages (421KB PDF)
- Key points
- How does health status vary with age?
- Mothers and babies
- Children and young people
- People aged 25-64 years
- Older people
- Health services (582KB PDF)
- Key points
- Public health services
- Primary care and community health services
- Hospitals
- Specialised health services
- Use of medicines
- Medical indemnity claims
- Expenditure and workforce (501KB PDF)
- Key points
- Health expenditure and health funding
- Health workforce
- Health system performance (345KB PDF)
- The National Health Performance Framework and indicators
- Overview of indicators by tier
- Conclusion
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- End matter (631KB PDF)
- Statistical tables
- Methods and conventions
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Index