Australia's Health 2004

Full publication

• Australia's Health 2004 (6.63M PDF) ^{1, 2, 3}

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (346K PDF; 68K RTF) ¹
  • Title and verso pages
  • Letter of transmittal
  • Editorial team and contributors
  • Contents
  • Editorial team 
  • Chapter coordinators 
  • External contributors/Referees 
  • AIHW contributors 
  • Preface 
  • Overview-Australia's Health 2004
• Sections
  1. Introduction 176K PDF; 49K RTF) ¹
     1. Understanding health 
     2. The role of health information 
     3. The Australian health system 
     4. Structure of the report 
  2. Health of Australians (368K PDF; 1.2M RTF) ¹
     1. Aspects of health 
     2. Functioning and disability 
     3. Morbidity and illness  (381K PDF) ¹
     4. Injuries 
     5. Mortality 
     6. Non-communicable diseases (782K PDF) ¹
     7. Communicable diseases 
  3. Determinants of health (366K PDF; 536K RTF) ¹
     1. Biomedical factors 
     2. Genetic factors 
     3. Health behaviours (460K PDF) ¹
     4. Socio-economic characteristics 
     5. Environmental factors 
  4. Population health (430K PDF; 620K RTF) ¹
     1. Mothers and babies 
     2. Children and young people 
     3. Overseas-born people 
     4. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 
     5. Socioeconomically disadvantaged people (314K PDF) ¹
     6. Health of people in rural and remote areas 
     7. Health status of veterans 
     8. Health of prisoners 
     9. Health conditions of people with a disability 
  5. Health resources (404K PDF; 1.2M RTF) ¹
     1. Introduction 
     2. Health expenditure 
     3. Funding of health expenditure 
     4. Health workforce (288K PDF) ¹
  6. Health services (433K PDF; 1M RTF) ¹
     1. Hospitals 
     2. Private medical practice 
     3. Dental services 
     4. Specialised mental health services (239K PDF) ¹
     5. Use of medications 
     6. Alcohol and other drug treatment services 
     7. Primary health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (239K PDF) ¹
     8. National Diabetes Services Scheme 
     9. Hearing services 
     10. Family planning services 
     11. Ambulance services and the Royal Flying Doctor Service 
     12. Other community health services 
     13. Complementary and alternative health services 
     14. Public health interventions 
  7. National health information and its development (288K PDF; 136K RTF) ¹
     1. New governance for national health information 
     2. National health information development priorities 
     3. Health indicators 
     4. Information development in several areas 
     5. Major national survey initiatives 
     6. A network of electronic health information 
     7. Future directions 
  8. Health of older Australians (423K PDF; 1.03M RTF) ¹
     1. Introduction 
     2. Demography 
     3. Mortality 
     4. Wellbeing 
     5. Disability 
     6. Health risk factors 
     7. Use of selected services 
     8. Health expenditure on diseases of older Australians 
     9. Selected conditions 
     10. Summary 
• End matter
  • Appendix: National Health Priority Areas  (225K PDF; 286K RTF) ^{1, 3}
  • Statistical tables (982K PDF; 4.9M RTF) ^{1, 3}
  • Methods and conventions (377K PDF; 48K RTF) ¹
  • Abbreviations (108K RTF)
  • Glossary (103K RTF)
  • Index (347K PDF; 271K RTF) ¹

Notes and Corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above. 
Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

1. 040804 Corrections:  Please note that as with all large statistical reports there is the potential for minor revisions of data in Australia's Health 2004 over its two-year life. (Files below contain information from the section quoted to next section listed.)
   • Full Publication: (5.4M PDF)
     • Preliminary material (326K PDF)
     • 1. Introduction (154K PDF)
     • 2. Health of Australians (698K PDF)
       • 2.3 Morbidity and illness  (434K PDF)
       • 2.6 Non-communicable diseases (528K PDF)
     • 3. Determinants of health (408K PDF)
       • 3.3 Health behaviours (532K PDF)
     • 4.  Population health (393K PDF)
       • 4.5 Socioeconomically disadvantaged people (222K PDF)
     • 5. Health resources (501K PDF)
       • 5.4 Health workforce (248K PDF)
     • 6. Health services (442K PDF)
       • 6.4 Specialised mental health services (517K PDF)
       • 6.7 Primary health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (256K PDF)
     • 7. National health information and its development (207K PDF)
     • 8. Health of older Australians (442K PDF)
     • Appendix: National Health Priority Areas (323K PDF)
     • Statistical tables (667K PDF)
     • Methods and conventions (444K PDF)
     • Index (468K PDF)
2. 041118: A full-document RTF file has not been provided due to the large sizes of RTF files for each section.
3. 041126 Correction: Table S69  within Death rate for suicide amongst young adults aged 15-24 years and older people aged 65 years and over. Correction: to Appendix National Health Priority Areas page 397.
   • Full Publication (6.63M PDF)
   • Appendix - National Health Priority Areas (209K PDF; 286K RTF)
   • Statistical tables (915K PDF; 4.9M RTF) ¹