Until recently it has been when you contact a public clinic for oral and/or dental care that mostly determined when you get an appointment, not how urgent your need for care, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
The Commonwealth Government's 2011 target of 88 operational residential aged care places for every 1,000 people aged 70 years and older is already close to being met, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The latest report on Australia's children, released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, shows a continuing fall in child death rates - mostly due to fewer injury deaths - as well as declining asthma hospitalisations, teen births and smoking rates in older children.
Public hospital emergency department visits are increasing at a rate faster than other hospital services, according to the 14th annual report on hospitals released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
On an average day in 2007-08, over 14,000 homeless people were accommodated through the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP), according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was a factor in nearly 10% of all deaths in Australia in 2006, and more than a million hospitalisations in 2006-07, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Over 41,000 clients were being treated for dependence on opioid drugs such as heroin as at 30 June 2008, according to the National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection: 2008 Report, released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
In recent years there have been increases in the number of Indigenous medical practitioners, Indigenous registered nurses, Indigenous students enrolled in health courses and Indigenous people with post-school qualifications in health, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD) have been declining since the late 1960s, resulting in a substantial saving of lives, and in the extension of life for the Australian population, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
The latest report on the government's Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP), released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), shows that one in every 104 Australians, received substantial SAAP support in 2007-08.
