Australia’s health 2018 (Report)

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,  Release Date: 20 Jun 2018

 

Australia’s Health 2018 is the AIHW’s 16th biennial report on the health of Australians. It examines a wide range of contemporary topics in a series of analytical feature articles and short statistical snapshots.

The report also summarises the performance of the health system against an agreed set of indicators.

Australia’s health 2018: in brief is a companion report to Australia’s health 2018.

Table of contents:

• ​Chapter 1 An overview of Australia’s health
  • 0 Overview
  • 1 What is health?
  • 2 Profile of Australians
  • 3 How healthy are Australians?
  • 4 Indicators of Australia’s health
  • 5 International comparisons
  • 6 What is missing from the picture?
• Chapter 2 Australia’s health system
  • 0 Overview
  • 1 How does Australia’s health system work?
  • 2 How much does Australia spend on health care?
  • 3 Who is in the health workforce?
  • 4 Digital health
  • 5 Secondary use of health information
• Chapter 3 Causes of ill health
  • 0 Overview
  • 1 Burden of disease across the life stages
  • 2 Leading causes of death
  • 3 Chronic conditions
  • 4 Cancer
  • 5 Mesothelioma
  • 6 Coronary heart disease
  • 7 Stroke
  • 8 Diabetes
  • 9 Chronic kidney disease
  • 10 Arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions
  • 11 Chronic respiratory conditions
  • 12 Mental health
  • 13 Eating disorders
  • 14 Dementia
  • 15 Injury
  • 16 Family, domestic and sexual violence
  • 17 Opioid harm
  • 18 Oral and dental health
  • 19 Communicable diseases
• Chapter 4 Determinants of health
  • 0 Overview
  • 1 Impacts of the natural environment on health
  • 2 Social determinants of health
  • 3 Health literacy
  • 4 Contribution of selected risk factors to burden of disease
  • 5 Tobacco smoking
  • 6 Alcohol risk and harm
  • 7 Illicit drug use
  • 8 Insufficient physical activity
  • 9 Diet
  • 10 Overweight and obesity
  • 11 Biomedical risk factors
  • 12 Antenatal risk factors
• Chapter 5 Health of population groups
  • 0 Overview
  • 1 Socioeconomic groups
  • 2 Rural and remote populations
  • 3 Culturally and linguistically diverse populations
  • 4 People with disability
  • 5 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people
  • 6 Veterans
  • 7 Prisoners
• Chapter 6 Indigenous health
  • 0 Overview
  • 1 Profile of Indigenous Australians
  • 2 Indigenous health and wellbeing
  • 3 Indigenous child mortality and life expectancy
  • 4 Ear health and hearing loss among Indigenous children
  • 5 Health behaviours of Indigenous Australians
  • 6 Social determinants and Indigenous health
  • 7 Size and sources of the Indigenous health gap
  • 8 Indigenous Australians’ access to and use of health services
  • 9 Supply of the health workforce for the Indigenous population
• Chapter 7 Prevention, treatment and health  services
  • 0 Overview
  • 1 Health promotion
  • 2 Immunisation and vaccination
  • 3 Suicide prevention activities
  • 4 Cancer screening
  • 5 Primary health care
  • 6 Medicines in the health system
  • 7 Overview of hospitals
  • 8 Funding sources for the care of admitted patients
  • 9 Safety and quality of hospital care
  • 10 Emergency department care
  • 11 Elective surgery
  • 12 Radiotherapy
  • 13 Organ and tissue donation
  • 14 Labour, birth and outcomes
  • 15 Caesarean sections
  • 16 Variation in health care provision
  • 17 Patient-reported experience and outcome measures
  • 18 Coordination of health care
  • 19 Specialised alcohol and other drug treatment services
  • 20 Mental health services
  • 21 Palliative care services

Whole report:

PDF Report (17.3Mb)

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Australia’s health 2018 in brief:

Companion ‘in brief’ booklet presents highlights in a compact easy-to-use format.

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