This report examines expenditure on health goods and services in Australia for 1992-93 to 2001-02 and presents preliminary estimates for 2002-03. It presents expenditure estimates: at the aggregate level; as a proportion of gross domestic product; on a per person basis; by state; by comparison with selected OECD countries; and by source of funding.

This report presents data on all assisted reproductive technology treatments that took place in 2002 and their resulting pregnancies and births. The Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database (ANZARD) permits the linkage of treatment cycles to pregnancies and births and, thus, allows the description of a single group: the treatment of cycles from a...

This report provides national information on the pregnancy and childbirth of mothers and their babies. This report updates the information presented last year, maintaining comparability with previous reports while incorporating improvements, and introduces data from a wider range of sources and information on selected summary measures of perinatal health. Three special chapters look at confinements...

Presents summary data of allocated health expenditure collected by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are Australia’s largest health problem, accounting for 50,294 deaths in 2002 and affecting 3.67 million Australians in 2001 (AIHW 2004b). In 1998, 1.1 million Australians had disabling conditions associated with cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are the...

The proportion of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia's older population (65 and older) is growing. Identifying the changing geographic distribution of this older population is of particular importance because location plays a significant role in understanding and planning health and aged care services. As most of the culturally and linguistically diverse...