Provides detail regarding trends in health expenditure between 2003-04 and 2013-14 for recurrent expenditure and capital expenditure.

Presents information on the youth detention population in Australia, focusing on quarterly trends from June 2011 to June 2015. Summary This bulletin examines the numbers and rates of young people aged 10 and over who were in youth detention in Australia due to their involvement or alleged involvement in crime. It focuses on trends over...

Summary The health of Australia's prisoners 2015 is the 4th report on the National Prison Health Indicators, which were developed to help monitor the health of prisoners, and to inform and evaluate the planning, delivery and quality of prison health services. It includes data from 1,011 prison entrants, 437 prison dischargees, over 9,500 prisoners who...

This report describes the effects of three chronic diseases - cardiovascular disease (CVD) (including coronary heart disease and stroke), diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) - on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, and compares this population with the non-Indigenous population. Higher levels of important health risk factors In 2011-13, Indigenous adults were 2.6...

Summary How much emergency department activity was there? In 2014-15, there were about 7.4 million presentations to the 290 Australian public hospital emergency departments that reported to the National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database; this corresponded to over 20,000 presentations each day. Between 2010-11 and 2014-15, emergency department presentations increased by 4.5% on average...