Congenital anomalies are a significant health concern in Australia, and remain a major reason for hospitalisation in infancy and childhood. Congenital anomalies are also a leading cause of infant mortality in Australia. This report compiles the available data from states and territories to update national information on selected congenital anomalies in 1998 to 2001. The...

This report examines expenditure on health goods and services in Australia for 1995-96 to 2005-06, presenting expenditure estimates: as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP); on a per person basis; by state and territory; by comparison with selected OECD and Asia-Pacific countries; and by source of funding-Australian Government, other governments and the non-government sector.Health...

This report provides relative survival data up to nine years after diagnosis for women diagnosed in Australia with breast cancer in 1997. There are breakdowns of survival proportions by size of cancer, nodal status, geographic region and socio-economic status.

This briefing provides an overview of football-related hospitalisations during 2004-05. Injuries sustained while playing football accounted for 31% (n=14,147) of all sports and leisure-related hospitalisations during this period. Australian football accounted for 30%, soccer for 24%, and rugby for 21% of all football-related hospitalisations. Over 90% of those hospitalised were aged 34 years or younger...

In a feasibility study carried out in 2001 and 2002, the Institute developed a strategy for linking the hospital morbidity and residential aged care databases using date of birth, sex, region of usual residence and event dates. Doubts concerning the efficacy of the linkage strategy were raised at the time because of the lack of...