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The national report on health sector performance indicators 2003 is the sixth in the series of reports to the Australian Health Ministers' Conference. It provides a comprehensive picture of the performance of the Australian health sector in regard to health status, health determinants and health services. The report will be relevant to the broader community as well as health policy makers, health professionals and researchers interested in the performance of the health sector.
Authored by AIHW & National Health Performance Committee.
Published 9 December 2004 ; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 422 0; AIHW cat. no. HWI 78; 153pp.; $42.00
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Full publication (2.88M PDF ; Appendixes 2 &3 (426K
PDF )
Preliminary material (113K PDF )
Title and verso pages
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Executive summary
Health status and outcomes
Determinants of health
Health system performance
Health inequalities
Summary
Sections
Introduction (93K PDF )
Preamble
The National Health Performance Committee
National health performance framework
Future directions
Benchmarking
Review of the framework
Structure of the report
Presentation of this report
The Australian health system (114K PDF )
Health status and outcomes(379K PDF )
Introduction
Indicator 1.01 Incidence of heart attacks
Indicator 1.02 Incidence of cancer
Indicator 1.03 Severe or profound core activity limitation
Indicator 1.04 Life expectancy (505K PDF )
Indicator 1.05 Psychological distress
Indicator 1.06 Potentially avoidable deaths
Indicator 1.07 Infant mortality
Indicator 1.08 Mortality for National Health Priority Area diseases and conditions
Determinants of health (396K PDF )
Indicator 2.01 Children exposed to tobacco smoke in the home
Indicator 2.02 Availability of fluoridated water
Indicator 2.03 Income inequality
Indicator 2.04 Informal care
Indicator 2.05 Adult smoking (357K PDF )
Indicator 2.06 Risky alcohol consumption
Indicator 2.07 Fruit and vegetable intake
Indicator 2.08 Physical inactivity
Indicator 2.09 Overweight and obesity
Indicator 2.10 Low birth weight babies
Indicator 2.11 High blood pressure
Health system performance(275K PDF )
Introduction
Health system performance
Indicator 3.01 Unsafe sharing of needles
Indicator 3.02 Teenage purchase of cigarettes
Indicator 3.03 Cervical screening
Indicator 3.04 Breast cancer screening
Indicator 3.05 Childhood immunisation
Indicator 3.06 Influenza vaccinations (440K PDF )
Indicator 3.07 Potentially preventable hospitalisations
Indicator 3.08 Survival following acute coronary heart disease event
Indicator 3.09 Cancer survival
Indicator 3.10 Appropriate use of antibiotics
Indicator 3.11 Management of diabetes
Indicator 3.12 Delivery by caesarean section
Indicator 3.13 Hysterectomy rates (600K PDF )
Indicator 3.14 Hospital costs
Indicator 3.15 Length of stay in hospital
Indicator 3.16 Waiting times in emergency departments
Indicator 3.17 Bulk billing for non-referred (GP) attendances
Indicator 3.18 Availability of general practitioner services
Indicator 3.19 Access to elective surgery
Indicator 3.20 Electronic prescribing and clinical data in general practice (186K PDF )
Indicator 3.21 Adverse events treated in hospitals
Indicator 3.22 Enhanced Primary Care services
Indicator 3.23 Health assessments by general practitioners
Indicator 3.24 Accreditation in general practice
Indicator 3.25 Health workforce
International developments in health sector performance analysis (118K PDF )
World Health Organization
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
International Health Policy Survey
Performance indicators in other countries
Using the National Health Performance Framework and benchmarking (73K PDF )
Introduction
The 2002 NHPC benchmarking workshop
Future directions (70K PDF )
End matter
Abbreviations (95K PDF )
References
Appendix 1: Membership of the National Health Performance Committee at July 2003
Appendix 2: Data tables (296K PDF )
Appendix 3: Technical notes (423K PDF )
Appendix 4: Geographic classifications: RRMA, ARIA and ASGC Remoteness (112K PDF )
Appendix 5: Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy and Disability Adjusted Life Years as performance measures for health status and outcomes
Background and purpose
The meaning and derivation of DALE and DALY
Limitations on the use of DALE and DALY as health outcome measures
Issues raised by the use of DALE and DALY as health status measures
Issues for the National Health Performance Framework
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