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...

This report presents national, state and territory statistics about alcohol and other drug treatment services and their clients, including information about the types of drug problems for which treatment is sought and the types of treatment provided. This is the third report in the series of annual publications on the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment...

This document describes the data available in the 2001-02 public housing and Aboriginal Rental Housing Program (ARHP) National Minimum Data set obtained from the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement public housing and ARHP annual data collections. These guidelines set out the technical specifications and major conventions for the handling of data.

This bulletin describes the population patterns of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia today using data obtained from regional registers and national databases.

This is the first report against the refined set of indicators endorsed by the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council in 2000, and the fourth time that all jurisdictions have reported against a set of national performance indicators for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. AHMAC produces these reports in order to inform policy makers and...