Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (116K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • Supplementary tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • Summary
  • Sections
    • Introduction (30K PDF)
    • National data sources (140K PDF)
      • Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
      • Drug Utilization Sub-Committee Database
      • Medicare and Department of Veterans' Affairs medical benefits data
      • National Hospital Morbidity Database
      • Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91
    • Non-hospital care (173K PDF)
      • Estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
      • Estimates from the Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91
      • National Heart Foundation Risk Factor Prevalence Study
      • Hunter Region Heart Disease Prevention Programme Risk Factor Prevalence Study
    • Hospital care
    • Drug use (225K PDF)
      • Estimates from the Drug Utilization Sub-Committee Database
      • Estimates from the Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91
      • Estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
      • Data from the Newcastle and Perth MONICA projects
      • Data from the Hunter Region Heart Disease Prevention Programme
    • Health care costs (204K PDF)
      • The Disease Costs and Impact Study
      • Australian casemix data
    • Medical labour force related to cardiovascular conditions (35K PDF)
      • Uses of medical labour force data for monitoring medical care of cardiovascular conditions
      • Number of medical practitioners and Medicare services in cardiovascular and related specialties
  • End matter
    • Appendixes (134K PDF)
      • Appendix A: Definitions of data items in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
      • Appendix B: Cardiovascular conditions included in estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
      • Appendix C: Index of antithrombotic, lipid lowering and cardiovascular drugs by generic drug name
      • Appendix D: The classification of cardiovascular disease under the International Classification of Primary Care
      • Appendix E: Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91 - list of treatments other than prescriptions
      • Appendix F: Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91 - list of generic cardiovascular drugs and diuretics
      • Appendix G: Medicare Benefits Schedule-cardiovascular medical services
      • Appendix H: Summary of the Disease Costs and Impact Study methodologies
    • Supplementary tables (271K PDF)
    • Other matter (68K PDF)
      • Glossary
      • Index of data sources and their uses in this report
      • References
      • Related publications
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