The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2008

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Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (163KB PDF)
  • Title and verso pages
  • Contents
  • list of tables and graphics
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Executive summary
• Sections (chapters 1-3: 680KB PDF; chapters 4-6: 572KB PDF; chapters 7-9: 654KB PDF; chapters 10-12: 585KB PDF)
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction
    • Aim
    • Data sources
    • Data issues
  • Chapter 2 - Demographic, social and economic context
    • Introduction
    • Demographic characteristics
    • Population characteristics
    • Summary
  • Chapter 3 - Education and health
    • Introduction
    • School retention
    • Educational attainment
    • Education, employment and income
    • links between education and health
    • Summary
  • Chapter 4 - Housing circumstances
    • Introduction
    • Housing tenure
    • Housing assistance
    • Housing types and size
    • Housing costs
    • Housing and health
    • Homelessness
    • Summary
  • Chapter 5 - Disability and carers
    • Introduction
    • Comparison of 2006 Census and 2002 NATSISS disability measures
    • Need for assistance
    • Need for assistance by socioeconomic indicators
    • Carers
    • Summary
  • Chapter 6 - Mothers and children
    • Introduction
    • Indigenous families and communities
    • Indigenous mothers
    • Babies and children
    • Healthy child development
    • Summary
  • Chapter 7 - Health status
    • Introduction
    • Self assessed health
    • Health conditions and illness
    • Specific causes of ill-health
    • Summary
  • Chapter 8 - Health risk factors
    • Introduction
    • Risk factors and socioeconomic status
    • Smoking
    • Alcohol consumption
    • Illicit substance use
    • Overweight/Obesity
    • Poor nutrition
    • Physical inactivity
    • Exposure to violence
    • Multiple risk factors
    • Summary
  • Chapter 9 - Mortality
    • Introduction
    • Data quality and availability
    • life expectancy
    • Deaths 2001-2005
    • Years of life lost (YLL)
    • Cause of death
    • Trends in mortality
    • Summary
  • Chapter 10 - Health services - provision, access and use
    • Introduction
    • Provision of health services
    • Access to health services
    • Current and future indigenous health and wellfare/community services workforce
    • Use of health services
    • Summary
  • Chapter 11 - Community services
    • Introduction
    • Childcare
    • Child protection
    • Adoption
    • Juvenile justice
    • Disability services
    • Aged care
    • Summary
  • Chapter 12 - Torres strait islander peoples
    • Introduction
    • Demographic characteristics
    • Socioeconomic characteristics
    • Health indicators
    • Summary
• End matter (260KB PDF)
  • Abbreviations
  • Appendix - 2006 Census questions on core activity need for assistance and unpaid assistance to a person with a disability
  • Main data sources
    • Introduction
    • Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) Survey
    • Census of Population and Housing
    • Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey (CHINS)
    • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS)
    • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
    • National Hospital Morbidity Data Collection
    • National Mortality Data Collection
    • National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC)
    • Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) National Data Collection
    • Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey (WAACHS)
  • Additional information
    • Glossary
    • List of references