Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
  • Section
    1. Introduction
      • Purpose of this document
      • Background
      • Forthcoming AIHW report: A picture of Australia's children 2009
    2. Operational definitions and data issues
      • How healthy are Australia's children?
        • Indicator: Mortality
        • Indicator: Morbidity
        • Indicator: Disability
        • Indicator: Mental health
      • How well are we promoting healthy child development?
        • Indicator: Breastfeeding
        • Indicator: Dental health
        • Indicator: Physical activity
        • Indicator: Early learning
      • How well are Australia's children learning and developing?
        • Indicator: Transition to primary school
        • Indicator: Attending early childhood education programs
        • Indicator: Attendance at primary school
        • Indicator: Literacy and numeracy
        • Indicator: Social and emotional development
      • What factors can affect children adversely?
        • Indicator: Teenage births
        • Indicator: Smoking during pregnancy
        • Indicator: Alcohol use during pregnancy
        • Indicator: Birthweight
        • Indicator: Overweight and obesity
        • Indicator: Environmental tobacco smoke in the home
        • Indicator: Tobacco use
        • Indicator: Alcohol misuse
      • What kind of families and communities do Australia's children live in?
        • Indicator: Family functioning
        • Indicator: Family economic situation
        • Indicator: Children in non-parental care
        • Indicator: Parental health status
        • Indicator: Neighbourhood safety
        • Indicator: Social capital
      • How safe and secure are Australia's children?
        • Indicator: Injuries
        • Indicator: School relationships and bullying
        • Indicator: Child abuse and neglect
        • Indicator: Children as victims of violence
        • Indicator: Homelessness
        • Indicator: Children and crime
      • How well is the system performing in delivering quality health and wellbeing actions to Australia's children?
        • Indicator: Congenital anomalies
        • Indicator: Newborn screening (hearing)
        • Indicator: Childhood immunisation
        • Indicator: Survival for leukaemia
        • Indicator: Quality child care
        • Indicator: Child protection resubstantiations
    3. Data sources
      • AIHW and collaborating units data sources
      • ABS data sources
      • Other data sources
  • End matter
    • Appendix 1: Headline Indicators for Children's Health, Development and Wellbeing
    • References