General practice activity in Australia 1999-2000

This publication is the fifth in the General Practice Series produced by the General Practice Statistics and Classification Unit, a Collaborating Unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the University of Sydney. It reports the results of the second year of the BEACH program, April 1999 to March 2000. Data reported by 1,047 general practitioners on 104,700 GP-patient encounters are used to describe aspects of general practice in Australia: the characteristics of general practitioners; the types of services they provide; the characteristics of patients who attend general practitioners; the problems managed at the GP-patient encounters and the management techniques adopted by the GPs. Information collected by the GPs on the wellbeing, body weight to height ratio, smoking status and alcohol use of sub-samples of patients are also included.