The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 2001

Full publication (2.62MB PDF)

• Preliminary material (114K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Preface
  • Summary (separate 74K PDF)
• Sections
  1. Introduction (673K PDF)
     • Aim
     • Scope
     • Data quality
     • The definition of health and welfare
     • Social and economic context
     • Demographic context
  2. Housing and Infrastructure (138K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Characteristics of Indigenous households
     • Infrastructure in Indigenous communities
     • Summary
  3. Community services (100K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Housing assistance
     • Child care
     • Child protection
     • Adoption
     • Disability services
     • Aged care
     • Summary
  4. Health services: provision, access and use (140K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Provision of health services
     • Access to health services
     • The current and future Indigenous health workforce
     • Use of health services
     • Summary
  5. Mothers and babies (373K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Mothers
     • Babies
     • Perinatal mortality
     • Summary
  6. Ill health (191K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Risk factors for ill health
     • Mental health
     • Hospitalisation
     • Kidney disease
     • Notifiable communicable diseases
     • Cancer
     • Dental health
     • Summary
  7. Diabetes (137K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Prevalence of diabetes
     • Risk factors for diabetes
     • Data availability and data quality
     • Summary
  8. Mortality (121K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Deaths 1997-99
     • Causes of death
     • Life expectancy
     • Summary
  9. Quality and availability of Indigenous statistics (178K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
     • Estimating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
     • Quality and availability of data from Censuses and surveys
     • Quality and availability of administrative data
     • Recent national strategic initiatives and future plans
     • Performance information
     • Summary
• End matter
  • Appendix (1.17M PDF)
  • Explanatory notes (76K PDF)
  • Glossary (91K PDF)
  • List of references (133K PDF)

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