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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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Preliminary material (158K PDF )
Title page and verso
Contents
List of tables and graphics
Preface
Acknowledgements
Summary (separate 87K PDF )
Sections
Introduction (97K PDF )
Aim
Defining health and welfare
Scope
Data quality
The demographic, social and economic context (1.43M PDF )
Introduction
Demographic characteristics
Population characteristics
Household characteristics
Summary
Housing and environmental health (153K PDF )
Introduction
Housing
Infrastructure
Summary
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
Community services (227K PDF )
Introduction
Housing assistance
Programs for homeless people
Child care
Child protection
Adoption
Juvenile justice
Disability services
Aged care
Summary
Mothers and babies (121K PDF )
Introduction
Mothers
Babies
Perinatal mortality
Summary
Ill health (267K PDF )
Introduction
Self-assessed health
Types of conditions
Summary
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
Mortality (216K PDF )
Introduction
Life expectancy
Deaths 1999-2001
Trends in mortality
Causes of death
Summary
Torres Strait Islanders (153K PDF )
Introduction
Demography
Hospital separations
Social and economic characteristics
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
Using Indigenous Census data (1.99M PDF )
Discrete Indigenous communities, by remoteness
structure
Undergraduate commencements, enrolments and
completions
ICD-10-AM codes used in this publication (73K PDF )
Estimates and projections of the Indigenous
population -- 1991-2006
Experimental Indigenous estimate resident
population -- 30 June 2001
Indigenous identifier, selected community
services collections (55K PDF )
Indigenous identifier, birth and perinatal
collections
Indigenous identifier, death registration and
medical cause of death forms
Explanatory Notes (235K PDF )
List of symbols and abbreviations
Glossary
List of references
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