Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Executive summary
      • Areas of concern
  • Sections
    • Introduction
      • Background
      • The conceptual framework
      • Quality and limitations of the indicators
      • Structure of the report
    • Government inputs 
      • Introduction
      • Indicator 1. Efforts to improve identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in data collections
      • Indicator 2. Government expenditure on health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
      • Indicator 4. Government expenditure on, and description of selected health promotion programs
    • Determinants of health - social equity
      • Introduction
      • Indicator 5. Life expectancy at birth
      • Indicator 6. Infant mortality rate
      • Indicator 7. Income poverty
      • Indicator 8. Completed secondary school education
      • Indicator 9. Employment status
      • Indicator 10. Housing with utilities
      • Indicator 11. People in prison custody
      • Indicator 12. The development of governance capacity in health
      • Indicator 13. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation on health/hospital boards
      • Indicator 14. Reporting of complaints in hospitals
    • Determinants of health - access to services
      • Introduction
      • Indicator 15. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health services
      • Indicator 16. Distance to a primary health care centre
      • Indicator 17. Distance to a hospital
      • Indicator 18. Access to primary health care services -small homeland communities and outstations
      • Indicator 19. Management of key conditions
      • Indicator 20. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the health workforce
      • Indicator 21. Higher education and training in key health professions
      • Indicator 22. Workforce availability in primary health care services
      • Indicator 23. Workforce availability in hospitals
      • Indicator 24. Cross-cultural training for hospital staff
    • Determinants of health - risk markers
      • Introduction
      • Indicator 25. Pap smear screening
      • Indicator 26. Childhood immunisation rates
      • Indicator 28. Low-birthweight infants
      • Indicator 29. Smoking prevalence
      • Indicator 30. Alcohol consumption
      • Indicator 31. Overweight and obesity
      • Indicator 32. Child abuse and neglect
      • Indicator 35. Injuries presenting to hospital accident and emergency facilities
    • Outcomes for people 
      • Introduction
      • Indicator 37. Notification rates for vaccine-preventable diseases
      • Indicator 38. Notification rates for meningococcal disease
      • Indicator 39. Notification rates for sexually transmissible diseases
      • Indicator 40. Ratios for all hospitalisations
      • Indicator 41. Hospitalisation ratios for circulatory diseases
      • Indicator 42. Hospitalisation ratios for injury and poisoning
      • Indicator 43. Hospitalisation ratios for respiratory diseases and lung cancer
      • Indicator 44. Hospitalisation ratios for diabetes
      • Indicator 45. Hospitalisation ratios for tympanoplasty associated with otitis media
      • Indicator 46. Hospitalisation ratios for mental health conditions
      • Indicator 47. Children's hearing loss 
      • Indicator 48. Stillbirths to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers
      • Indicator 49. Early adult death
      • Indicator 50. Age- and sex - specific all cause death rates and ratios
      • Indicator 51. Standardised mortality ratios for all causes
      • Indicator 52. Standardised mortality ratios for circulatory diseases
      • Indicator 53. Standardised mortality ratios for injury and poisoning
      • Indicator 54. Standardised mortality ratios for respiratory diseases and lung cancer
      • Indicator 55. Standardised mortality ratios for diabetes
      • Indicator 56. Standardised mortality ratios for cervical cancer
  • End matter 
    • Appendix 1
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • References