Australian Health Trends 2001

Full publication

• Australian health trends 2001 (3.56M PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (115K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • Foreword
• Sections
  1. Introduction (85K PDF)
  2. Some trends in the health of Australians in the twentieth century (724K PDF)
  3. The health of Australians (715K PDF)
     • Annual growth rate of the Australian population
     • Life expectancy at birth
     • Total death rate
     • Major causes of death
     • Potential years of life lost before age
     • Self-reported prevalence of disability
     • Self-reported prevalence of core activity restriction
     • Expected years of life with disability and core activity restriction
  4. The health of subpopulations
     • Indigenous population size (789K PDF)
     • Indigenous death rate for all causes
     • Indigenous infant mortality rate
     • Indigenous death rate for cardiovascular disease
     • Net overseas migration rate
     • Death rates among Australian-born and overseas-born persons
     • Crude birth rate
     • Total fertility rate and median age of mother at confinement
     • Births to teenagers, and to women aged 35 and over
     • Infant mortality rate
     • Perinatal mortality (769K PDF)
     • Low birthweight infants
     • Major birth defects rate
     • Sudden infant death syndrome rate
     • Death rate for accidental drowning, children aged 1 - 4 years
     • Mean DMFT score and decay-free rate in 12-year-old children
     • Population aged 65 and over, and 80 and over
     • Life expectancy at age
     • Death rate for degenerative diseases among persons aged 65 and over
     • Prevalence of edentulism
  5. National Health Priority Areas
     • Death rate for coronary heart disease (901K PDF)
     • Hospital separation rate for coronary heart disease
     • Procedures for coronary heart disease
     • Death rate for stroke
     • Incidence and death rates for all cancers
     • Incidence and death rates for colorectal cancer
     • Incidence and death rates for cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lung
     • Incidence and death rates for melanoma
     • Incidence and death rates for non-melanocytic skin cancers
     • Incidence and death rates for breast cancer
     • Incidence and death rates for cervical cancer
     • Incidence and death rates for prostate cancer (796K PDF)
     • Death rate for all causes of injury
     • Death rate for road vehicle accidents
     • Hospital separation rate for road vehicle accidents
     • Death rate for accidental falls among persons aged 65 and over
     • Death rate for accidents due to fire, burns and scalds among persons aged 55 and over
     • Death rate from overdose of heroin, methadone or other opiates
     • Death rate for suicide and self-inflicted injury
     • Death rate for homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons
     • Death rate for diabetes
     • Death rate for asthma
  6. Health determinants and risk factors
     • Proportion of 1-year-olds fully immunised (617K PDF)
     • Incidence rates for pertussis, measles and meningococcal disease
     • Newly diagnosed HIV infection
     • Incidence and death rates for AIDS
     • Notification rates for sexually transmitted diseases
     • Rates of new and reactivated cases of tuberculosis
     • Apparent consumption of fats
     • Apparent consumption of fruit and vegetables (676K PDF)
     • Apparent consumption of sugars
     • Proportion of 25 - 64-year-olds who are considered overweight
     •  Proportion of 25 - 64-year-olds with high total blood cholesterol
     • Proportion of 25 - 64-year-olds who drink alcohol at hazardous or harmful levels
     • Proportion of 25 - 64-year-olds engaged in physical activity
     • Proportion of persons aged 16 years and over who currently smoke
     • Proportion of 25 - 64 year olds with high blood pressure
  7. Health service delivery, costs and performance (747K PDF)
     • Total health expenditure as a proportion of GDP
     • Health expenditure per person
     • Medical services expenditure per person
     • Acute care hospital expenditure per person
     • Home and community care expenditure per person aged 65 years and over
     • Employment in the health industry
     • Numbers of health professionals
     • Acute care hospital beds
     • Residential aged care places and community aged care packages for persons aged 70 years and over
  8. Health service utilisation and access (661K PDF)
     • Acute care hospital separation rate
     • Average length of stay in acute care hospitals
     • Acute care hospital patient days
     • Medical consultations per person
     • Organ and tissue transplants, and donor rate
     • Use of dental services by adults
     •  Proportion of the population with private health insurance
• End matter (389K PDF)
  • Abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
  • References