Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (90KB PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Social determinants
      • Health conditions and risk behaviours
      • Health service use
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners
      • Deaths in custody
      • Conclusions
  • Body section
    • Snapshot of the health of Australia's prisoners
      1. Introduction (194KB PDF)
        • 1.1 Background
        • 1.2 Prisoner health services in Australia
          • New South Wales
          • Victoria
          • Queensland
          • Western Australia
          • Tasmania
          • Australian Capital Territory
          • Northern Territory
        • 1.3 Key policy directions
          • Commonwealth
          • New South Wales
          • Victoria
          • Queensland
          • Western Australia
          • Tasmania
          • Australian Capital Territory
          • Northern Territory
        • 1.4 National Prisoner Health Census methodology
          • Correctional centres
          • Prisoners
          • Health service contact
          • Census forms
          • Supplementary electronic data
          • Ethics
          • Jurisdictional comparisons, community comparison and international comparison
        • 1.5 Report structure
      2. Overview (232KB PDF)
        • 2.1 Prison health related environment
          • Tobacco smoking in prisons
          • Mental health
          • Injecting equipment
          • Dependent children
          • Condom availability
        • 2.2 Australia's prisoners
        • 2.3 Prison entrants
          • Detention history
          • Education level
      3. Health conditions (293KB PDF)
        • 3.1 Mental health
          • Mental health disorders and current medication
          • Psychological distress
          • Distress related to current incarceration
          • Self-harm
        • 3.2 Head injury
        • 3.3 Communicable diseases
          • Hepatitis C
          • Hepatitis B
          • HIV
        • 3.4 Chronic conditions
          • Asthma
          • Arthritis
          • Cardiovascular disease
          • Diabetes
          • Cancer
        • 3.5 Women's health
          • Pregnancies
          • Cervical screening
      4. Deaths (142KB PDF)
        • 4.1 Deaths in custody
        • 4.2 Deaths following release from prison
      5. Health behaviours (209KB PDF)
        • 5.1 Tobacco smoking
        • 5.2 Risky alcohol use
        • 5.3 Illicit drug use
          • Injecting drugs
        • 5.4 Unprotected sex
        • 5.5 Health service use
          • Use of health services
          • Non-use of health services when needed and reasons
      6. Prison health services (295KB PDF)
        • 6.1 Visits by Aboriginal community controlled health organisations
        • 6.2 Referrals to prison mental health services
        • 6.3 Identification of suicide or self-harm risk
        • 6.4 Transfers from prison clinic to public hospitals
        • 6.5 Immunisation
        • 6.6 Discharge planning
        • 6.7 Use of prison clinic
          • Initiator of clinic visits
          • Type of health professional seen in clinic visits
        • 6.8 Problems managed in prison clinics
        • 6.9 Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment
        • 6.10 Medication
          • Mental health related medication
        • 6.11 Medication for hepatitis C
        • 6.12 Full-time equivalent staffing ratios
      7. Comparisons with the general community and prisoners internationally (293KB PDF)
        • 7.1 Education
        • 7.2 Mental health
        • 7.3 Head injuries
        • 7.4 Communicable disease
        • 7.5 Chronic conditions
        • 7.6 Women's health
        • 7.7 Deaths in custody
        • 7.8 Tobacco smoking
        • 7.9 Risky alcohol consumption
        • 7.10 Illicit drug use
        • 7.11 Health service use
        • 7.12 Immunisations
      8. Data gaps and future directions (56KB PDF)
        • 8.1 Missing information and unavailable data
        • 8.2 Data mapping
        • 8.3 Indicators not included in this report
        • 8.4 Indicators requiring redevelopment
        • 8.5 Future directions for the Census
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. List of indicators (49KB PDF)
      2. Data sources (46KB PDF)
        • National Prisoner Health Census (AIHW)
        • NPEBBV&RBS
        • Prisoners in Australia (ABS)
        • Deaths in Custody in Australia (AIC)
        • National Health Survey (ABS)
        • National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (ABS)
        • National Drug Strategy Household Survey (AIHW)
        • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey(ABS)
        • Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) General practice activity in Australia (AIHW)
        • Cervical screening in Australia 2006–07
        • Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities 2004 (USA)
        • Prisoner Health Survey 2005 (New Zealand)
      3. Prisoner health legislation in Australia (50KB PDF)
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      4. Prisons in Australia (50KB PDF)
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      5. Prisoner health census forms (1.6MB PDF)
        • National Prisoner Health Census-Trial Census 2009
          • Prison Entrants Form
          • Clinic Form
          • Prisoners in Custody-Repeat Medications
          • Prison Establishment Form
      6. South Australia (43KB PDF)1
        • Prisoner health services
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        • Key policy directions
    • Abbreviations (115KB PDF)
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
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