The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2005

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• Preliminary material (382K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • Overview
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • List
• Sections
  1. Introduction 
     • Aim
     • Data sources
     • Data issues
  2. The demographic, social and economic context (422K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Demographic characteristics
     • Population characteristics
     • Summary
  3. Education and health (292K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • School 
     • Participation in non-school study
     • Non-school qualifications
     • The links between education and health 
     • Summary
  4. Housing circumstances (725K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Indigenous households
     • Housing tenure and housing assistance
     • Housing assistance
     • Household types and sizes
     • Housing costs 
     • Housing and health
     • Homelessness
     • Summary
  5. Disability and ageing (592K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Establishing disability
     • Prevalence of disability
     • Disability in non-remote areas
     • Comparison with the non-Indigenous population
     • Disability, education and economic participation 
     • Disability and families 
     • Disability and social participation 
     • Summary
  6. Mothers and children (493K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Maternal factors 
     • Babies and children 
     • Healthy child development
     • Health status of children
     • Summary
  7. Health status (862K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Self-assessed health 
     • Causes of ill-health
     • Specific causes of ill-health
     • Summary
  8. Health risk factors (308K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Risk factors and socioeconomic status
     • Smoking
     • Alcohol 
     • Illicit substance use
     • Physical inactivity
     • Stress
     • Exposure to violence
     • Illicit drug use
     • Removal from natural family
     • Nutrition
     • Body weight
     • Multiple risk factors
     • Summary
  9. Mortality (686K PDF)
     • Introduction
     • Data quality and availability
     • Life expectancy
     • Deaths 1999 - 2003 
     • Causes of death
     • Trends in mortality
     • Summary
  10. Health services: provision, access and use (650K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Provision of health services
      • Access to health services
      • Indigenous health and welfare services workforce
      • Use of health services
      • Summary
  11. Community services (551K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Child care
      • Child protection
      • Adoption
      • Juvenile justice
      • Disability services
      • Aged care
      • Summary
  12. Torres Strait Islander peoples (488K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Demographic characteristics 
      • Economic and social characteristics
      • Health indicators
  13. Data sources (196K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) Survey
      • Census of Population and Housing 
      • Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey (CHINS)
      • General Social Survey (GSS)
      • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) 
      • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
      • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS)
      • National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS)
      • National Health Survey (NHS)
      • National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD)
      • Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey (WAACHS)
      • Abbreviations
• End matter (593K PDF)
  • Appendixes
    • Experimental Indigenous estimated resident population, 30 June 2001
    • Estimates and projections of the Indigenous population, 1991-2009
    • Disability or long-term health condition
    • Limitations and restrictions
    • Disability type
    • Language and educational characteristics, Torres Strait Islander peoples, 2001
    • Labour force characteristics and household tenure type, Torres Strait Islander peoples, 2001
  • Additional information
    • List of references
    • Glossary