The first comprehensive study of cancer health system expenditures in Australia covered the year 1993-94 and was released in 1998. This report updates the expenditure estimates to 2000-01 and includes 'other neoplasms' as well as cancers.

This report focuses on a comprehensive range of rural health issues, including health status, determinants of health, and health service provision, and is the first systematic comparison of its kind.

Childhood, particularly early childhood, has become a key priority for governments and non-government organisations, in response to emerging concern about Australia's children in the context of rapid social change, as well as compelling evidence about the importance of the early years. This report brings together a wide variety of data, including information about individual, family...

This report provides an overview of total health system expenditures on disease and injury in Australia during 2000-01, based on the best possible estimates from currently available data sources. To maximise the validity of comparison between diseases, similar methods are used in estimating each disease.

This report presents summary data collected in Australia's most comprehensive national survey on drug issues. Key results on drug-related awareness, knowledge, attitudes and behaviour are features of this report. Comparisons with 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2001 surveys are presented and population estimates of the numbers of consumers of both licit and illicit substances are...