National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators 2003

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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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Publication table of contents

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
1. 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
2. The Australian health system (114K PDF)
3. 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
4. Determinants of health (396K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Using the National Health Performance Framework and benchmarking (73K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - The 2002 NHPC benchmarking workshop
8. 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