Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page
- Verso title page
- Transmittal letter
- Editorial team, contributors and referees
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapters
- Introduction
- Health and its determinants
- The role of health information
- The health of Australians
- Mortality
- Diseases and illness
- Disability and handicap
- The health of subpopulations
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Rural and remote populations
- Overseas-born persons
- Mothers and infants
- Children and young adults
- Older people
- National health priorities
- National Health Priority Areas
- Cardiovascular health
- Cancer control
- Injury prevention and control
- Mental health
- Diabetes
- Developments in public health
- Communicable diseases
- Childhood immunisation
- Asthma
- Oral health
- Nutrition
- Risk factors for disease
- Health services delivery, costs and performance
- Structure and administration of health services in Australia
- Health services funding and expenditure
- Private health insurance
- Health workforce
- Institutional health services
- Cost performance in the hospital sector
- Cost of diseases
- Health services use and access
- Use of hospitals
- Access to hospital services
- Quality and effectiveness of hospital services
- Use of private medical services
- Use of dental services
- Use of medications
- Developments in health information
- What is national health information and why is it needed?
- Structures and data development processes for national health information
- Progress and challenges in national health information
- Gaps and deficiencies in health statistics
- Introduction
- End matter
- Statistical tables
- Population
- Fertility and pregnancy
- Mortality
- Infectious diseases
- Cancer
- Dental health
- Smoking
- Use of hospitals
- Health expenditure
- Health labour force
- Use of professional services
- National Health Priority Areas
- Methods and conventions
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Index
- Statistical tables