The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2003

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The fourth edition of The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples provides a unique overview of the health and welfare of Australia's Indigenous population. The report draws on the extensive surveys and censuses conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the range of data held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The result is a publication that covers topics as diverse as population statistics, housing and infrastructure, community services and housing assistance, health status, death and sickness, and the availability, resourcing and use of services.

Authored by ABS & AIHW.

Published 29 August 2003; ISSN 1441 2004; AIHW cat. no. IHW 11; ABS cat. no. 4704.0; 311pp.; $60.00

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Publication table of contents

Preliminary material (158K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- List of tables and graphics
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Summary (separate 87K PDF)
Sections
1. Introduction (97K PDF)
  - Aim
  - Defining health and welfare
  - Scope
  - Data quality
2. The demographic, social and economic context (1.43M PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Demographic characteristics
  - Population characteristics
  - Household characteristics
  - Summary
3. Housing and environmental health (153K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Housing
  - Infrastructure
  - Summary
4. Health services: provision, access and use (270K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Provision of health services
  - Access to health services
  - Current and future Indigenous health and community services workforce
  - Use of health services
  - Summary
5. Community services (227K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Housing assistance
  - Programs for homeless people
  - Child care
  - Child protection
  - Adoption
  - Juvenile justice
  - Disability services
  - Aged care
  - Summary
6. Mothers and babies (121K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Mothers
  - Babies
  - Perinatal mortality
  - Summary
7. Ill health (267K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Self-assessed health
  - Types of conditions
  - Summary
8. Health risk factors (146K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Breastfeeding
  - Immunisation
  - Nutrition
  - Body weight
  - Smoking
  - Alcohol consumption
  - Multiple risk factors: obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption and low exercise level
  - Illicit drug use
  - Exposure to violence
  - Summary
9. Mortality (216K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Life expectancy
  - Deaths 1999 - 2001
  - Trends in mortality
  - Causes of death
  - Summary
10. Torres Strait Islanders (153K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Demography
  - Hospital separations
  - Social and economic characteristics
11. Recent developments in the collection of Indigenous statistics (185K PDF)
  - Introduction
  - Recent national strategic initiatives and future plans
  - Performance information
  - Identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  - Estimating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
  - Quality and availability of data from censuses and surveys
  - Quality and availability of administrative data
End matter
- Appendixes
  1. Using Indigenous Census data (1.99M PDF)
  2. Discrete Indigenous communities, by remoteness structure
  3. Undergraduate commencements, enrolments and completions
  4. ICD-10-AM codes used in this publication (73K PDF)
  5. Estimates and projections of the Indigenous population -- 1991-2006
  6. Experimental Indigenous estimate resident population -- 30 June 2001
  7. Indigenous identifier, selected community services collections (55K PDF)
  8. Indigenous identifier, birth and perinatal collections
  9. Indigenous identifier, death registration and medical cause of death forms
- Explanatory Notes (235K PDF)
- List of symbols and abbreviations
- Glossary
- List of references