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This is the second national summary report on the refined set of 56 health performance indicators for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The indicators are designed to provide an assessment of whether the health of Indigenous people is improving and to highlight problem areas that Australia's health system should address as high priorities. This report, like many previous reports, draws attention to the relatively poor quality of the data on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This means that comprehensive comparisons between states and territories are not yet possible.
Authored by AIHW.
Published 6 March 2006 ; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 383 4; AIHW cat. no. IHW 16; 280pp.; $33.00
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Full publication (1.05M PDF )
Preliminary material (178K PDF )
Title page and verso
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of tables
List of figures
Executive summary
Sections
Introduction (95K PDF )
Background
The conceptual framework
Quality and limitations of the indicators
Future reports
Structure of the report
Government inputs (301K PDF )
Introduction
Indicator 1. Efforts to improve identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in data collections
Indicator 2. Government expenditure on health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Indicator 4. Government expenditure on, and description of selected health promotion programs
Determinants of health - social equity (232K PDF )
Introduction
Indicator 5. Life expectancy at birth
Indicator 6. Infant mortality rate
Indicator 7. Income poverty
Indicator 8. Completed secondary school education
Indicator 9. Employment status
Indicator 10. Housing with utilities
Indicator 11. People in prison custody
Indicator 12. The development of governance capacity in health
Indicator 13. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation on health/hospital boards
Indicator 14. Reporting of complaints in hospitals
Determinants of health - access to services (301K PDF )
Introduction
Indicator 15. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health services
Indicator 16. Distance to a primary health care centre
Indicator 17. Distance to a hospital
Indicator 18. Access to primary health care services -small homeland communities and outstations
Indicator 19. Management of key conditions
Indicator 20. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the health workforce
Indicator 21. Higher education and training in key health professions
Indicator 22. Workforce availability in primary health care services
Indicator 23. Workforce availability in hospitals
Indicator 24. Cross-cultural training for hospital staff
Determinants of health - risk markers (226K PDF )
Introduction
Indicator 25. Pap smear screening
Indicator 26. Childhood immunisation rates
Indicator 28. Low-birthweight infants
Indicator 29. Smoking prevalence
Indicator 30. Alcohol consumption
Indicator 31. Overweight and obesity
Indicator 32. Child abuse and neglect
Indicator 35. Injuries presenting to hospital accident and emergency facilities
Outcomes for people (418K PDF )
Introduction
Indicator 37. Notification rates for vaccine-preventable diseases
Indicator 38. Notification rates for meningococcal disease
Indicator 39. Notification rates for sexually transmissible diseases
Indicator 40. Ratios for all hospitalisations
Indicator 41. Hospitalisation ratios for circulatory diseases
Indicator 42. Hospitalisation ratios for injury and poisoning
Indicator 43. Hospitalisation ratios for respiratory diseases and lung cancer
Indicator 44. Hospitalisation ratios for diabetes
Indicator 45. Hospitalisation ratios for tympanoplasty associated with otitis media
Indicator 46. Hospitalisation ratios for mental health conditions
Indicator 47. Children's hearing loss (293K PDF )
Indicator 48. Stillbirths to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers
Indicator 49. Early adult death
Indicator 50. Age- and sex - specific all cause death rates and ratios
Indicator 51. Standardised mortality ratios for all causes
Indicator 52. Standardised mortality ratios for circulatory diseases
Indicator 53. Standardised mortality ratios for injury and poisoning
Indicator 54. Standardised mortality ratios for respiratory diseases and lung cancer
Indicator 55. Standardised mortality ratios for diabetes
Indicator 56. Standardised mortality ratios for cervical cancer
End matter (186K PDF )
Appendix 1
Abbreviations
Symbols
References
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