Analyses presented in this report show how the changes in the causes of death help to explain why we are living longer. The report describes patterns and trends in mortality over the century, highlighting the great successes but also some areas where improvements are still clearly needed.

This report compares changes in mortality in Australia's major cities, regional and remote areas in the period 1992-2003. Trends for Australia’s broad geographic regions are compared for a range of specific causes of death including coronary heart disease, lung cancer, cervical cancer, asthma, suicide, motor vehicle traffic accidents, diabetes and many others.

This is the second national summary report on the refined set of 56 health performance indicators, designed to provide an assessment of whether the health of Indigenous people is improving and to highlight problem areas. Like many previous reports, this report draws attention to the relatively poor quality of the data, which means that comprehensive...

This bulletin discusses the demand for Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) accommodation, with a focus on the groups that request accommodation – individuals on their own, individuals with children, couples with children and couples without children – because these groups have different patterns of accommodation use and varying degrees of difficulty in accessing SAAP accommodation.

Public health activities are aimed at preventing illness and enhancing the present and future wellbeing and quality of life of a nation’s population. This publication provides detailed estimates of expenditure for the years 2001-02 to 2003-04, as well as some revised estimates for 1999-00 and 2000-01. The report summarises estimates of expenditure and funding from...