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released: 1 Dec 1999 author: Tennant S & Glover J

The Social Health Atlas forms part of a set of nine volumes which brings together a wide range of information about the health status and health service use of the population for each State and Territory and for Australia as a whole. It illustrates linkages between socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, poorer health status and greater use of services. This second edition was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care and compiled by the Public Health Information Development Unit at the University of Adelaide. The reports are available in hard copy, on CD and from the Public Health Information Development Unit's web site: http://www.public health.gov.au

ISBN 978 0 7308 9028 7; Cat. no. AIHW 6363; 0pp.; INTERNET ONLY

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Publication table of contents

  • Contents
  • Executive summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Methods
  • 3 Demography and socioeconomic status
    • Age distribution
    • Families
    • Labour force
    • Educational participation and achievement
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    • People born in predominantly non-English speaking countries
    • Housing
    • SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage
  • 4 Income support payments
  • 5 Health status
    • Synthetic predictions of selected health status measures
    • People reporting their health as fair or poor
    • Physical Component Score, SF3
    • Handicap status
    • Deaths by sex and cause
    • Years of potential life lost
    • Total Fertility Rate
  • 6 Utilisation of health services
    • Hospital admissions
    • General medical practitioner (GP services)
    • Immunisation status of one year old children
  • 7 Availability of selected health services
    • Population per GP
    • Hospital beds
    • Residential care places
  • 8 Statistical analysis
    • Correlation matrices
  • 9 Summary of findings
  • Appendix 1
  • Supporting documentation
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recommended citation

Tennant S & Glover J 1999. Social Health Atlas of Australia Volume 7: Tasmania (PHIDU): Second Edition. Social Health Atlas of Australia Series no. 2. Cat. no. AIHW 6363. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 13 January 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467105>.