This report uses hospital separations data from the National Hospital Morbidity Database to describe fall-related hospitalisations in the financial year 2006–07 and to present results of trends analyses for the period 1999–2007. This report is the third in a series on hospitalisations due to falls by people aged 65 and older in Australia. The two...

The report focuses on hospitalised falls occurring in the financial year 2007–08 and includes estimates of the cost to the hospital system due to serious falls.

This resource sheet examines available evidence for the effectiveness of sexual health education programs for Indigenous Australians.

This resource sheet on Indigenous housing describes the best approaches to the construction and maintenance of Indigenous housing stock. The basic assumption taken in this document is that, in a resource-constrained environment, it is very important to focus on ensuring that the investment in Indigenous housing generates an improvement in housing function for the residents.

This report describes the state of oral health of Australian children examined by school dental service (SDS) staff in 2007. It also describes trends in oral health of Australian children between 1989 and 2007. The most recent findings are drawn from the 2007 Child Dental Health Survey (CDHS) which analysed the data of 110,014 children...