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
- Implications of improving health
- The role of health information
- The Australian health system
- The health of Australians
- Dimensions and components of health
- Life expectancy and longevity
- Self-reported health
- Fitness
- Oral health
- Sexual health
- Immunological health
- Burden of disease and injury
- Mortality
- Illness, morbidity and health conditions
- Disability
- Australian Burden of Disease and Injury Study
- NHPA diseases and conditions
Please note there has been a correction to the legend of figure2.28, page72, where items were transposed in the original version of this publication. - Cardiovascular disease
- Cancers
- Injuries
- Mental problems and disorders
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Other major chronic disases and conditions
- Chronicobstructive pulmonary disease
- Arthitis and other musculoskeletal disorders
- Nervous system disorders
- End-stage renel (kidney) disease
- Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases
- Communicable diseases
- Dimensions and components of health
- Determinants of health
- Environmental factors
- Genetic factors
- Attitudes and beliefs
- Lifestyle and behaviour
- Biomedical factors
- Health and determinants in population groups
- Mothers and babies
- Children and younger people
- Men and women aged 25 and over
- Older people
- Overseas-born
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Socioeconomically disadvantaged
- Rural and remote populations
- Health resources and use of services
- Health services funding and expenditure
- Cost of diseases
- Private health insurance
- Health workforce
- Supply and use of health services
- Use of medications
- Health promotion and prevention
- Health research in Australia
- Health service strategies, performance and monitoring
- Issues in health services planning
- Emerging and contemporary issues
- Performance indicators
- Service delivery monitoring
- Challenges for national health information
- The National Health Information Development Plan
- Newly emerging information challenges
- Major gaps in this report
- Changes in Australia's disease profile: a view of the twentieth century
- General trends in health over the twentieth century
- Trends in major causes of death in Australia
- Introduction
- End matter
- Statistical tables
- Population
- Fertility and pregnancy
- Mortality
- Infectious diseases
- Cancer
- Oral health
- Cardiovascular risk factors
- Use of hospitals
- Health expenditure
- Health labour force
- Use of professional services
- National Health Priority Areas
- Methods and conventions
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Index
- Statistical tables