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Drug statistics series no. 17
This report, commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, identifies and examines relevant Australian data sources in terms of their capacity to answer key questions about substance use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Options for improving and making better use of existing data sources are also highlighted.
Authored by AIHW.
Published 25 October 2006 ; ISSN 1442-7230; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 608 8; AIHW cat. no. PHE 76; 182pp.; OUT OF PRINT
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Preliminary material (81K PDF )
Title page and verso
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Summary
Sections
Introduction (192K PDF )
Purpose of the project
Project methodology, analytical framework
and report structure
Background: summary of literature review
Tobacco, alcohol and other drug use
Associated harms
Context and influences
Intervention and treatment services
Resources
National drug strategies
Stakeholder workshop
Workshop background
Workshop discussion and proposals
What are the priority information areas?
What are the key questions?
What information is already available?
Key data sources
Describing key data sources
Comparability of key data sources in terms
of methodology: scope, coverage, timing and
collection counts
Comparability of key data sources in terms
of data items
To what extent can existing data sources answer
key questions? (148K PDF )
Introduction
Tobacco, alcohol and other drug use and
associated risk behaviours
Context and influences
Associated harms and health status
Intervention and treatment services
Resources
Summary
What are the information gaps and how do we fill
them?
Introduction
Priority information needs and the main
information gaps
Options for improvement and better use of
existing sources
End matter
Appendix 1: Literature review and policy context
(309K PDF )
Appendix 2: Stakeholder workshop
Appendix 3: Comparative analysis of key data
sources
References
List of tables
Additional material
Drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples: an assessment of data sources - Data collection
summaries (645K PDF )
