Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Foreword
  • Sections
    1. Introduction 
    2. Some trends in the health of Australians in the twentieth century
    3. The health of Australians
      • 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 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 
      • 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
      • 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 
      • 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 
      • 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 
      • 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 
      • 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 
      • 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
    • Abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
    • References