International Health - How Australia Compares

Full publication (17.8M PDF)

Preliminary material (75K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
Chapters
1. Introduction (58K PDF)
2. Population (992K PDF)
  - Human settlement (301K PDF)
  - Population growth (295K PDF)
  - Dependency ratios (288K PDF)
  - Population projections (318K PDF)
3. Fertility and pregnancy (1.5M PDF)
  - Birth rates (305K PDF)
  - Fertility rates (305K PDF)
  - Low birthweight (355K PDF)
  - Family planning (318K PDF)
  - Maternal mortality (313K PDF)
4. Important causes of ill-health (2.5M PDF)
  - Cancers, males and females (904K PDF)
  - Communicable diseases (313K PDF)
  - Congenital malformations (291K PDF)
  - Dental caries (301K PDF)
  - Disability (338K PDF)
  - Heart attack (371K PDF)
  - HIV/AIDS (322K PDF)
  - Mental disorders (309K PDF)
5. Mortality (10M PDF)
  - Life expectancy, males and females (548K PDF)
  - Potential years of life lost (303K PDF)
  - Major causes of death (357K PDF)
  - Infant mortality (328K PDF)
  - All causes, male and female (2.9M PDF)
  - Diabetes mellitus, males and females (593K PDF)
  - Cardiovascular disease, males and females (1.5M PDF)
  - Respiratory system, males and females (1.1M PDF)
  - Sudden infant death syndrome (284K PDF)
  - Injury and poisoning, males and females (601K PDF)
  - Other selected causes, males and females (1.6M PDF)
6. Health services and resources (1.5M PDF)
  - Health expenditure (310K PDF)
  - Acute care hospital admissions and occupancy (329K PDF)
  - Acute care hospital beds and length of stay (321K PDF)
  - Nursing homes (312K PDF)
  - Health workforce (310K PDF)
  - Medical practitioners (312K PDF)
7. Health determinants (2.1M PDF)
  - Smoking (408K PDF)
  - Alcohol (325K PDF)
  - Child immunisation (330K PDF)
  - Dietary intake (310K PDF)
  - Physiological and anthropometric measures (358K PDF)
  - Social and economic environment (308K PDF)
  - Physical environment (314K PDF)
End matter
- Abbreviations (74K PDF)
- References (55K PDF)

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