This is the first report that aligns information about chronic diseases with selected national health indicators. Importantly, the report highlights where indicators for chronic diseases do not exist, and where data to report against current indicators are lacking. 'Indicators for chronic diseases and their determinants, 2008' is the third in a series of reports on...

In making dementia a National Health Priority, the Australian Government has recognised dementia as one of the biggest health problems facing Australia now and into the future. It has not been widely understood that dementia is also a major health problem for Indigenous people. Recent research in the Kimberley region suggests that the prevalence rates...

As globalisation accelerates the international movement of organisms that are capable of carrying infectious diseases, it is becoming clear that global infectious disease management is an issue that demands concerted international action in order to be managed effectively. Health security has, in recent times, featured ever more prominently on the APEC agenda. However, there has...

This is the first report on medical indemnity in Australia to combine public and private sector data. It presents the first 12 months' data from the combined Medical Indemnity National Collection (MINC) of public and private sector medical indemnity claims. ​The data in this report cover claims current at any time during the reporting period...

Over half of respondents to five consecutive surveys of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Australia reported using at least one form of complementary medicine (CM), including vitamin and mineral supplements, herbal medicines, traditional Chinese medicine and massage. CM users were as likely as non-users to be using antiretroviral treatments (ARV) for HIV. Research conducted...