Table of contents
- Preliminary material (90KB PDF)
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols
- Summary
- Social determinants
- Health conditions and risk behaviours
- Health service use
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners
- Deaths in custody
- Conclusions
- Body section
- Snapshot of the health of Australia's prisoners
- Introduction (194KB PDF)
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Prisoner health services in Australia
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- 1.3 Key policy directions
- Commonwealth
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- 1.4 National Prisoner Health Census methodology
- Correctional centres
- Prisoners
- Health service contact
- Census forms
- Supplementary electronic data
- Ethics
- Jurisdictional comparisons, community comparison and international comparison
- 1.5 Report structure
- Overview (232KB PDF)
- 2.1 Prison health related environment
- Tobacco smoking in prisons
- Mental health
- Injecting equipment
- Dependent children
- Condom availability
- 2.2 Australia's prisoners
- 2.3 Prison entrants
- Detention history
- Education level
- 2.1 Prison health related environment
- Health conditions (293KB PDF)
- 3.1 Mental health
- Mental health disorders and current medication
- Psychological distress
- Distress related to current incarceration
- Self-harm
- 3.2 Head injury
- 3.3 Communicable diseases
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis B
- HIV
- 3.4 Chronic conditions
- Asthma
- Arthritis
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- 3.5 Women's health
- Pregnancies
- Cervical screening
- 3.1 Mental health
- Deaths (142KB PDF)
- 4.1 Deaths in custody
- 4.2 Deaths following release from prison
- Health behaviours (209KB PDF)
- 5.1 Tobacco smoking
- 5.2 Risky alcohol use
- 5.3 Illicit drug use
- Injecting drugs
- 5.4 Unprotected sex
- 5.5 Health service use
- Use of health services
- Non-use of health services when needed and reasons
- Prison health services (295KB PDF)
- 6.1 Visits by Aboriginal community controlled health organisations
- 6.2 Referrals to prison mental health services
- 6.3 Identification of suicide or self-harm risk
- 6.4 Transfers from prison clinic to public hospitals
- 6.5 Immunisation
- 6.6 Discharge planning
- 6.7 Use of prison clinic
- Initiator of clinic visits
- Type of health professional seen in clinic visits
- 6.8 Problems managed in prison clinics
- 6.9 Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment
- 6.10 Medication
- Mental health related medication
- 6.11 Medication for hepatitis C
- 6.12 Full-time equivalent staffing ratios
- Comparisons with the general community and prisoners internationally (293KB PDF)
- 7.1 Education
- 7.2 Mental health
- 7.3 Head injuries
- 7.4 Communicable disease
- 7.5 Chronic conditions
- 7.6 Women's health
- 7.7 Deaths in custody
- 7.8 Tobacco smoking
- 7.9 Risky alcohol consumption
- 7.10 Illicit drug use
- 7.11 Health service use
- 7.12 Immunisations
- Data gaps and future directions (56KB PDF)
- 8.1 Missing information and unavailable data
- 8.2 Data mapping
- 8.3 Indicators not included in this report
- 8.4 Indicators requiring redevelopment
- 8.5 Future directions for the Census
- Introduction (194KB PDF)
- Snapshot of the health of Australia's prisoners
- End matter
- Appendixes
- List of indicators (49KB PDF)
- Data sources (46KB PDF)
- National Prisoner Health Census (AIHW)
- NPEBBV&RBS
- Prisoners in Australia (ABS)
- Deaths in Custody in Australia (AIC)
- National Health Survey (ABS)
- National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (ABS)
- National Drug Strategy Household Survey (AIHW)
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey(ABS)
- Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) General practice activity in Australia (AIHW)
- Cervical screening in Australia 2006–07
- Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities 2004 (USA)
- Prisoner Health Survey 2005 (New Zealand)
- Prisoner health legislation in Australia (50KB PDF)
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- Prisons in Australia (50KB PDF)
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- Prisoner health census forms (1.6MB PDF)
- National Prisoner Health Census-Trial Census 2009
- Prison Entrants Form
- Clinic Form
- Prisoners in Custody-Repeat Medications
- Prison Establishment Form
- National Prisoner Health Census-Trial Census 2009
- South Australia (43KB PDF)1
- Prisoner health services
- Key policy directions
- Abbreviations (115KB PDF)
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Appendixes