This report examines housing assistance in the government, not-for-profit and private sector segments in Australia in 2011-12.

This report finds that people with dementia had much higher hospitalisation rates than those without dementia: 26% compared with 12%. The Hospital Dementia Services Project is an innovative study that uses linked data to explore how hospital-based aged care and dementia services in New South Wales in 2006-07 influenced outcomes for people with dementia. This...

This report describes the methods used for the Hospital Dementia Services Project to derive dementia status, complete hospital stays and post-hospital destination using New South Wales hospital data for 2006-07. Comparisons of estimates using these key variables show that the method used to derive the variables can substantially affect analytical results on use of hospitals...

This report presents information on the dental, audiology and ear, nose and throat services funded throughout the course of the Child Health Check Initiative Program. Although open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children under 16 years living in prescribed communities, this program specifically targeted those who received referrals from their Child Health Checks...

Life expectancy is an indication of how many years a person can expect to live, assuming death rates do not change. The term ‘health expectancy’ is used to describe, within a person’s life expectancy, the expected years spent in various health states from birth to death, such as years with disability. However, disability does not...