Publication list

Life expectancy and disability in Australia 1988 to 2003

Disability series

Life expectancy has increased markedly over the last century. Has the number of years lived with illness or disability fallen or risen as overall life expectancy has lengthened? This report explores this question, focusing on years lived with disability. The report updates previous estimates of 'health expectancies' in Australia and examines the changes over a period of 15 years, from 1988 to 2003.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 1 September 2006; ISSN 1444-3589; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 604 0; AIHW cat. no. DIS 47; 44pp.; $22.00

Disability support services 2004-05: national data on services provided under the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement

Disability series

'Disability support services 2004-05' reports on data collected as part of the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set (CSTDA NMDS) between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2005. The NMDS provides information on the service outlets funded under the CSTDA and the people who use these services. The report includes a strong focus on data relating to the support needs, informal carers and living arrangements of people who access CSTDA-funded services. For the first time, some comparisons between two full financial years of CSTDA data (2003-04 and 2004-05) are included.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 31 August 2006; ISSN 1444-3589; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 602 6; AIHW cat. no. DIS 46; 141pp.; $27.00

Disability updates: children with disabilities

AIHW bulletin no. 42

This bulletin updates information on disability among Australian children (aged up to 14 years). It draws mostly on the 2003 ABS Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers and it describes the number of children with disabilities, the types of disability they have, their experience in school, and the needs of their carers.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 14 July 2006; ISSN 1446-9820; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 587 6; AIHW cat. no. AUS 79; 24pp.; OUT OF PRINT

Australian incontinence data analysis and development

The 'Australian incontinence data analysis and development' report presents a profile of the Australian population experiencing incontinence and describes the sorts of data items recommended to improve the collection of incontinence data. Part A of the report (Incontinence in Australia) investigates the prevalence, experience and burden of incontinence in Australia and the related monetary costs and expenditure associated with the condition. Part B (Developing continence data standards) then focuses on the development and description of data items for inclusion in future continence data collections.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 2 March 2006; AIHW cat. no. DIS 44; 142pp.; $20.00

Disability rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: updating the Indigenous factor in disability services performance indicator denominators

Welfare working paper no. 50

The 'potential population' is an estimate of the number of people who may at some time require access to specialist disability services and is used as the denominator of national performance indicators for disability services. Previously titled 'Potential population: updating the Indigenous factor in disability services performance indicator denominators'.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 14 February 2006; AIHW cat. no. WP 50; 18pp.; INTERNET ONLY

Disability and disability services

This publication is based on an extract of Australia's Welfare 2005

Authored by AIHW.

Published 7 February 2006; AIHW cat. no. DIS 43; 96pp.; $18.00

Functioning and related health outcomes module, the development of a data capture tool for health and community services information systems

Welfare working paper no. 53

This report describes work that sets out to explore the value of a module of information on functional status as a health outcomes measure and to develop a framework for the development of such a module.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 12 January 2006; AIHW cat. no. WP 53; 142pp.; FREE

CSTDA NMDS tables prepared for the CSTDA annual public report 2003-04

Welfare working paper no. 51

The Commonwealth State/ Territory Disability Agreement Annual Public Report 2003-04 (NDA 2005) was approved for release by the Community and Disability Services Ministers' Conference in July 2005. The present report is, essentially, a technical, statistical complement to the CSTDA Annual Public Report, presenting but not describing the tables prepared for use in Chapter 7 of that report. These tables are based on data from the 2003-04 Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set (CSTDA NMDS). For a more detailed report on the 2003-04 CSTDA NMDS, please refer to the AIHW publication Disability Support Services 2003-04 (AIHW 2005). Current until 4 November 2006.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 4 November 2005; AIHW cat. no. DIS 42; 16pp.; OUT OF PRINT

Functioning and related health outcomes module

The FRHOM is a new compact module that can provide a summary that reflects the person's current status across all components of functioning as defined in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) (WHO 2001). This report informs people interested in improving information on human functioning within and across a wide range of fields, and/or interested in testing the FRHOM in 2005-06.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 18 October 2005; AIHW cat. no. DIS 41; 50pp.; OUT OF PRINT

Disability support services 2003-04: national data on services provided under the Commonwealth State/Territory disability agreement

Disability series

This report presents data on services provided or funded by governments under the CSTDA, and the people accessing these services between 1 July 2003 and 30 June 2004. The report presents a range of data relating to service users, their characteristics, their informal carers, and patterns of service usage. In addition, there is information on the service outlets providing disability support services nationwide during 2003-2004.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 5 August 2005; ISSN 1444-3589; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 488 6; AIHW cat. no. DIS 40; 138pp.; OUT OF PRINT