Australia's health 1994

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Publication table of contents

• Preface
• 1 The health of Australians
  • 1.1 Health and its determinants
  • 1.2 Measures of ill-health
    • 1.2.1 Mortality
    • 1.2.2 Admission to hospital
    • 1.2.3 Seeing a doctor
    • 1.2.4 Disability and handicap
    • 1.2.5 Cost of illness
  • 1.3 Health and ill-health of special populations
    • 1.3.1 Mothers and infants
    • 1.3.2 Migrants
    • 1.3.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    • 1.3.4 Residents of rural Australia
    • 1.3.5 Employed people
  • 1.4 Factors which influence health
    • 1.4.1 Nutritional status
    • 1.4.2 Other major risk factors for disease
  • 1.5 National health goals and targets
• 2 Important causes of ill-health in Australia
  • 2.1 Communicable diseases
  • 2.2 Cancer
  • 2.3 Cardiovascular disease
  • 2.4 Dental disease
  • 2.5 Perinatal health
  • 2.6 Transport-related injury
  • 2.7 Suicide and other self-injury
• 3 Health service organisation, funding and expenditure
  • 3.1 Structure and administration of health services in Australia
  • 3.2 Health service funding and expenditure
  • 3.3 Private health insurance
  • 3.4 Pharmaceuticals
  • 3.5 Health technologies
• 4 Health care resources and their use
  • 4.1 Health personnel
  • 4.2 Institutional facilities
  • 4.3 Use of hospitals
  • 4.4 Waiting lists
  • 4.5 Medical services
  • 4.6 Dental services
  • 4.7 Health technologies
    • 4.7.1 Use of health technologies
    • 4.7.2 Emerging health technologies
    • 4.7.3 Technologies in aged care
• 5 Health information and statistics: sources, developments and deficiencies
  • 5.1 National Health Information Agreement
  • 5.2 Commonwealth agencies and national health statistics
  • 5.3 National Death Index
  • 5.4 Health Statistics for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders
  • 5.5 Developments in injury surveillance
  • 5.6 Developments in health outcomes measurement
  • 5.7 Deficiencies in statistics on health of Australians
  • 5.8 Deficiencies in statistics on-health care funding, resources and use
  • 5.9 Towards an optimised health information and statistics system
• Statistical tables
• Appendix
  • Methods and conventions
• Commonly used abbreviations
• Glossary
• Index