Presents summary data of allocated health expenditure collected by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are Australia’s largest health problem, accounting for 50,294 deaths in 2002 and affecting 3.67 million Australians in 2001 (AIHW 2004b). In 1998, 1.1 million Australians had disabling conditions associated with cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are the...

The proportion of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia's older population (65 and older) is growing. Identifying the changing geographic distribution of this older population is of particular importance because location plays a significant role in understanding and planning health and aged care services. As most of the culturally and linguistically diverse...

This report presents national, state and territory statistics about alcohol and other drug treatment services and their clients, including information about the types of drug problems for which treatment is sought and the types of treatment provided. This is the third report in the series of annual publications on the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment...

This document describes the data available in the 2001-02 public housing and Aboriginal Rental Housing Program (ARHP) National Minimum Data set obtained from the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement public housing and ARHP annual data collections. These guidelines set out the technical specifications and major conventions for the handling of data.

This bulletin describes the population patterns of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia today using data obtained from regional registers and national databases.