PDF report table of contents
- Preliminary material (115kB PDF)
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Definitions and approaches to estimating disability prevalence
- Existing elements of prevalence of physical disability
- AIHW estimates of the prevalence of physical disability in Australia
- Chapters
- An overview of existing definitions and classifications (112K PDF)
- Introduction
- International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH)
- International application of the ICIDH
- Measures of functional assessment
- International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)
- Australian administrative definitions and classifications
- Existing estimates of prevalence of physical disability (109kB PDF)
- International estimates
- Australian estimates of the prevalence of physical disability
- Issues relating to operational definitions and approaches to estimating prevalence (94kB PDF)
- Impairment-focused versus activity-focused approaches
- Other factors affecting estimates of prevalence
- An operational definition of physical disability
- Estimates of the prevalence of physical disability in Australia (183kB PDF)
- The AIHW method of estimating prevalence of physical disability
- Estimates at national level
- Estimates at State and Territory level
- An overview of existing definitions and classifications (112K PDF)
- End matter (158kB PDF)
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Physical impairment/disabling condition groupings
- Appendix B: ABS 1993 disability survey questions on limitations and restrictions that constitute the 'filter' used in step two of the 'AIHW method'
- Appendix C: Appendix tables
- References
- Appendixes