The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 2003

Full publication (4.75MB PDF)

• Preliminary material (158K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables and graphics
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Summary (separate 87K PDF)
• Sections
  1. Introduction (97K PDF)
     • Aim
     • Defining health and welfare
     • Scope
     • Data quality
  2. The demographic, social and economic context (1.43M PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Demographic characteristics
     • Population characteristics
     • Household characteristics
     • Summary
  3. Housing and environmental health (153K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Housing
     • Infrastructure
     • Summary
  4. Health services: provision, access and use (270K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Provision of health services
     • Access to health services
     • Current and future Indigenous health and community services workforce
     • Use of health services
     • Summary
  5. Community services (227K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Housing assistance
     • Programs for homeless people
     • Child care
     • Child protection
     • Adoption
     • Juvenile justice
     • Disability services
     • Aged care
     • Summary
  6. Mothers and babies (121K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Mothers
     • Babies
     • Perinatal mortality
     • Summary
  7. Ill health (267K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Self-assessed health
     • Types of conditions
     • Summary
  8. Health risk factors (146K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Breastfeeding
     • Immunisation
     • Nutrition
     • Body weight
     • Smoking
     • Alcohol consumption
     • Multiple risk factors: obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption and low exercise level
     • Illicit drug use
     • Exposure to violence
     • Summary
  9. Mortality (216K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Life expectancy
     • Deaths 1999-2001
     • Trends in mortality
     • Causes of death
     • Summary
  10. Torres Strait Islanders (153K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Demography
      • Hospital separations
      • Social and economic characteristics
  11. Recent developments in the collection of Indigenous statistics (185K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Recent national strategic initiatives and future plans
      • Performance information
      • Identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      • Estimating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
      • Quality and availability of data from censuses and surveys
      • Quality and availability of administrative data
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    1. Using Indigenous Census data (1.99M PDF)
    2. Discrete Indigenous communities, by remoteness structure
    3. Undergraduate commencements, enrolments and completions
    4. ICD-10-AM codes used in this publication (73K PDF)
    5. Estimates and projections of the Indigenous population -- 1991-2006
    6. Experimental Indigenous estimate resident population -- 30 June 2001
    7. Indigenous identifier, selected community services collections (55K PDF)
    8. Indigenous identifier, birth and perinatal collections
    9. Indigenous identifier, death registration and medical cause of death forms
  • Explanatory Notes (235K PDF)
  • List of symbols and abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • List of references

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