Table of contents
- Preliminary material (85K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Contributors and acknowledgements
- Executive summary (141K PDF)
- Introduction
- Chapters
- Overview (111K PDF)
- Profile of heart, stroke and vascular disease
- Trends in mortality and prevalence
- Issues in heart, stroke and vascular disease
- Indicators for cardiovascular health (57K PDF)
- The development process
- Overview of indicators and trends
- Summary of trends
- Primary prevention (76K PDF)
- Background
- Inter-relationships in health promotion
- Scope for further gains from prevention
- Current approaches to primary prevention in Australia
- Management and treatment (113K PDF)
- Management of heart, stroke and vascular disease
- Secondary prevention and rehabilitation
- Current approaches to treatment and secondary prevention
- Potential gains from interventions to prevent and treat heart, stroke and vascular disease (64K PDF)
- Coronary heart disease
- Stroke
- Other cardiovascular conditions
- Conclusions
- Special populations (78K PDF)
- Indigenous populations
- Remote populations
- Socio-economically disadvantaged people
- Monitoring, information management and research (62K PDF)
- National Cardiovascular Monitoring System
- Information management
- Research
- Opportunities and future directions (47K PDF)
- Overview (111K PDF)
- End matter (257K PDF)
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1: NHPA indicators for general health
- Appendix 2: NHPA indicators for cardiovascular health
- Appendix 3: Data issues
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Glossary
- References
- Appendixes