Australia's Health 2002

Full publication (7.21M PDF)

• Preliminary material (217K PDF)
  • Title and verso pages
  • Letter of transmittal
  • Editorial team and contributors
  • Contents
  • Preface
• Sections
  1. Introduction (254K PDF)
     1. Structure and highlights of the report
     2. Health and its determinants
     3. The role of health information
     4. The Australian health system
  2. Health of Australians (2.29M PDF)
     1. Health
     2. Functioning and disability
     3. Mortality
     4. Non-communicable diseases and conditions
     5. Communicable diseases
     6. National Health Priority Areas diseases and conditions
  3. Determinants of health (867K PDF)
     1. Biomedical factors
     2. Lifestyle and behaviour
     3. Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
     4. Genetic factors
     5. Environmental factors
     6. Determinants and risk factors for NHPA diseases and conditions
  4. Population health (915K PDF)
     1. Introduction
     2. Mothers and babies
     3. Children and young people
     4. Older people (aged 65 and over)
     5. Overseas-born people
     6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
     7. Socioeconomically disadvantaged people
     8. Rural and remote people
     9. Health status of veterans
     10. Health of prisoners
     11. National Health Priority Areas: a population-based perspective
  5. Health resources and use of services (1.74M PDF)
     1. Overview of health services in Australia
     2. Health services funding and expenditure
     3. Private health insurance
     4. Health workforce
     5. Provision and use of health services
     6. Use of medications
     7. Public health interventions
     8. Health resources and use of health services for the National Health Priority Areas
  6. Health monitoring and information development (520K PDF)
     1. Recent information developments and emerging issues
     2. Health system performance measurement
     3. Health indicators
     4. A national network for electronic health records
     5. International work on health measurement
     6. Health classifications
     7. Future directions in health information
• End matter
  • Statistical tables (780K PDF)
  • Methods and conventions (117K PDF)
  • Abbreviations (75K PDF)
  • Glossary (219K PDF)
  • Index (390K PDF)

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