Table of contents
- letter of transmittal
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The health status of Australians
- 2.1 Life expectancy
- 2.2 Death rates
- 2.3 Hospitalisation
- 2.4 Disability and handicap
- 2.5 Congenital malformations
- 2.6 Dental health
- 2.7 Health differentials
- 3 Today's epidemics
- 3.1 Today's epidemics: Injury and poisoning
- 3.2 Today's epidemics: cardiovascular disease
- 3.3 Today's epidemics: cancer
- 3.4 Today's epidemics: AIDS
- 3.5 Asthma: a new epidemic?
- 3.6 Drug abuse: another epidemic?
- 4 Australia's health goals and strategies
- 4.1 Inequalities in health
- 4.2 Health goals and targets
- 4.3 The National Better Health Program
- 4.4 Monitoring progress towards goals and targets
- 4.5 Other national health Initiatives
- 5 Health services in Australia
- 5.1 Use of hospitals and other related Institutions
- 5.2 Medical services
- 5.3 Pharmaceutical drugs
- 5.4 Health personnel
- 5.5 Health expenditure
- 5.6 Private health insurance
- 6 Health care technologies
- 6.1 Introduction and diffusion of health technologies
- 6.2 The impact of health technologies
- 6.3 Health technology assessment
- 6.4 Usage data for selected technologies
- 6.5 Case studies
- 7 Health: the quality of survival in older age
- 7.1 The changing social and economic fabric
- 7.2 The health status of older Australians
- 7.3 Health and support services for older people
- 7.4 Assessment of health quality in later life
- 8 Review of developments in health statistics
- 8.1 Organisational changes
- 8.2 Developments relating to individual collections
- 8.3 Gaps in health statistics
- acknowledgments
- glossary
- list of figures
- list of tables
- index