Summary
Australia's health is the AIHW's biennial health report that profiles current health issues in a collection of feature articles and statistical snapshots that cover a range of areas. These areas include:
- The health status of Australians
- Health expenditure
- The major causes of ill health
- Determinants of health
- Health through the life course
- Health of Indigenous Australians
- Preventing and treating ill health
- Health system performance
In addition to the main report, a companion 'in brief' booklet presents highlights in a compact, easy-to-use format.
Both Australia's health 2016, and Australia's health 2016—in brief are available to purchase in hard-copy, as PDF downloads free of charge, and in HTML formats.
Additional material includes supplementary tables and feature articles and snapshots.
Australia's health 2016 is the 15th biennial health report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. This edition combines analytical feature articles on highly topical health issues with short statistical snapshots in the following areas:
- Understanding health and illness
- The Australian health system
- How healthy are we?
- Leading types of ill health
- Health behaviours and risks
- Health through your life
- Indigenous health
- Preventing and treating ill health
- Indicators of Australia’s health.
Preliminary material: Preface; Acknowledgments; Terminology
Chapter 1 An overview of Australia's health
- Introduction
- What is health?
- Australians: who we are
- How healthy are Australians?
Chapter 2 Australia's health system
- Introduction
- How does Australia's health system work?
- How much does Australia spend on health care?
- Who is in the health workforce?
Chapter 3 Leading causes of ill health
- Introduction
- Burden of disease and injury in Australia
- Premature mortality
- Chronic disease and comorbidities
- Cancer
- Coronary heart disease
- Stroke
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions
- Chronic respiratory conditions
- Mental health
- Dementia
- Injury
- Oral health
- Vision and hearing disorders
- Incontinence
- Vaccine preventable disease
Chapter 4 Determinants of health
- Introduction
- Social determinants of health
- Social determinants of Indigenous health
- Biomedical risk factors
- Overweight and obesity
- Illicit drug use
- Alcohol risk and harm
- Tobacco smoking
- Health behaviours and biomedical risks of Indigenous Australians
Chapter 5 Health of population groups
- Introduction
- Health across socioeconomic groups
- Trends and patterns in maternal and perinatal
- health
- How healthy are Australia's children?
- Health of young Australians
- Mental health of Australia's young people and adolescents
- Health of the very old
- How healthy are Indigenous Australians?
- Main contributors to the Indigenous life expectancy gap
- Health of Australians with disability
- Health of prisoners in Australia
- Rural and remote health
Chapter 6 Preventing and treating ill health
- Introduction
- Prevention and health promotion
- Cancer screening
- Primary health care
- Medicines in the health system
- Using data to improve the quality of Indigenous health care
- Indigenous Australians' access to health services
- Spatial variation in Indigenous women's access to maternal health services
- Overview of hospitals
- Changes in the provision of hospital care
- Elective surgery
- Emergency department care
- Radiotherapy
- Organ and tissue donation
- Safety and quality in Australian hospitals
- Specialised alcohol and other drug treatment services
- Mental health services
- Health care use by older Australians
- End-of-life care
Chapter 7 Indicators of Australia's health
- Introduction
- Indicators of Australia's health
End matter: Methods and conventions; Symbols; Acronyms and abbreviations; Glossary; Index