Table of contents
- Preliminary material (116K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- List of tables
- Supplementary tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Summary
- Sections
- Introduction (30K PDF)
- National data sources (140K PDF)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
- Drug Utilization Sub-Committee Database
- Medicare and Department of Veterans' Affairs medical benefits data
- National Hospital Morbidity Database
- Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91
- Non-hospital care (173K PDF)
- Estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
- Estimates from the Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91
- National Heart Foundation Risk Factor Prevalence Study
- Hunter Region Heart Disease Prevention Programme Risk Factor Prevalence Study
- Hospital care
- The National Hospital Morbidity Database (a: 309K PDF)
- Medicare and Department of Veterans' Affairs medical benefits data (b: 232K PDF)
- Estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
- National Heart Foundation cardiac surgery register
- National Heart Foundation coronary angioplasty register
- Australian casemix data
- Waiting times for elective surgery in Australian public hospitals
- Cardiothoracic transplants
- Newcastle MONICA project
- Drug use (225K PDF)
- Estimates from the Drug Utilization Sub-Committee Database
- Estimates from the Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91
- Estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
- Data from the Newcastle and Perth MONICA projects
- Data from the Hunter Region Heart Disease Prevention Programme
- Health care costs (204K PDF)
- The Disease Costs and Impact Study
- Australian casemix data
- Medical labour force related to cardiovascular conditions (35K PDF)
- Uses of medical labour force data for monitoring medical care of cardiovascular conditions
- Number of medical practitioners and Medicare services in cardiovascular and related specialties
- End matter
- Appendixes (134K PDF)
- Appendix A: Definitions of data items in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
- Appendix B: Cardiovascular conditions included in estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey 1995
- Appendix C: Index of antithrombotic, lipid lowering and cardiovascular drugs by generic drug name
- Appendix D: The classification of cardiovascular disease under the International Classification of Primary Care
- Appendix E: Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91 - list of treatments other than prescriptions
- Appendix F: Survey of Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice in Australia 1990-91 - list of generic cardiovascular drugs and diuretics
- Appendix G: Medicare Benefits Schedule-cardiovascular medical services
- Appendix H: Summary of the Disease Costs and Impact Study methodologies
- Supplementary tables (271K PDF)
- Other matter (68K PDF)
- Glossary
- Index of data sources and their uses in this report
- References
- Related publications
- Appendixes (134K PDF)