This report explores the experience of Indigenous people with disability compared with Indigenous people without disability and all Australians with similar severity of disability. It addresses how they are faring in terms of five key areas reflecting aspects of participation in the context of prevalence rates. Indigenous people in Australia have rates of ill-health and...

The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS) data specifications and collection manual has been prepared as a reference for those involved in collecting and supplying the data for the AODTS-NMDS. It should be particularly useful to staff in Australian Government, state and territory departments, and alcohol and other drug treatment...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Indigenous Australians) typically die at much younger ages than other Australians and are more likely to experience disability and reduced quality of life because of ill health. One important contributor to health and wellbeing is access to health services. This paper examines Indigenous Australians' use of a range of...

On a snapshot day in 2010 there were 46,078 clients who received pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence, of which almost two in three were male. This report presents data from the 2010 National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data (NOPSAD) collection, which includes information at both the national level and state and territory level. Specifically, it highlights...

For every new case of end-stage kidney-disease treated with dialysis or transplant there is one that is not, and the vast majority of these are elderly. End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is the most severe form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), where kidney function deteriorates so much that dialysis or kidney transplantation is required to survive...