Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Lists of tables and figures
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    • Background and introduction
      • Data quality and analytical methods
      • Context
    • Key points
      • Demography
      • Overall death rates
      • Life expectancy
      • Changes in death rates, 1992-1999
      • Broad causes of death
      • Specific causes of death
    • Technical notes
      • Measures of mortality
      • Data presentation
      • Indigenous and non-Indigenous data: data quality issues
      • Geographic classification
      • Cause of deaths
    • Mortality
      • Overall death rates
      • Life expectancy
      • Trends in death rates
    • Broad causes of mortality
    • Mortality due to specific causes
      • Circulatory disease
        • Trends in mortality due to circulatory disease
        • Specific circulatory diseases
      • Neoplasms
        • Trends in mortality due to neoplasms
        • Specific neoplasms
      • Respiratory disease
        • Trends in mortality due to respiratory diseases
        • Specific respiratory diseases
      • Injury
        • Trends in mortality due to injury and poisoning
        • Specific injuries
      • 'All other causes'
        • Specific 'other' causes
    • Comments on the findings
  • End matter
    • References