Table of contents
- Preliminary material (113K PDF)
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Executive summary
- Health status and outcomes
- Determinants of health
- Health system performance
- Health inequalities
- Summary
- Sections
- Introduction (93K PDF)
- Preamble
- The National Health Performance Committee
- National health performance framework
- Future directions
- Benchmarking
- Review of the framework
- Structure of the report
- Presentation of this report
- The Australian health system (114K PDF)
- Health status and outcomes (379K PDF)
- Introduction
- Indicator 1.01 Incidence of heart attacks
- Indicator 1.02 Incidence of cancer
- Indicator 1.03 Severe or profound core activity limitation
- Indicator 1.04 Life expectancy (505K PDF)
- Indicator 1.05 Psychological distress
- Indicator 1.06 Potentially avoidable deaths
- Indicator 1.07 Infant mortality
- Indicator 1.08 Mortality for National Health Priority Area diseases and conditions
- Determinants of health (396K PDF)
- Introduction
- Indicator 2.01 Children exposed to tobacco smoke in the home
- Indicator 2.02 Availability of fluoridated water
- Indicator 2.03 Income inequality
- Indicator 2.04 Informal care
- Indicator 2.05 Adult smoking (357K PDF)
- Indicator 2.06 Risky alcohol consumption
- Indicator 2.07 Fruit and vegetable intake
- Indicator 2.08 Physical inactivity
- Indicator 2.09 Overweight and obesity
- Indicator 2.10 Low birth weight babies
- Indicator 2.11 High blood pressure
- Health system performance (275K PDF)
- Introduction
- Health system performance
- Indicator 3.01 Unsafe sharing of needles
- Indicator 3.02 Teenage purchase of cigarettes
- Indicator 3.03 Cervical screening
- Indicator 3.04 Breast cancer screening
- Indicator 3.05 Childhood immunisation
- Indicator 3.06 Influenza vaccinations (440K PDF)
- Indicator 3.07 Potentially preventable hospitalisations
- Indicator 3.08 Survival following acute coronary heart disease event
- Indicator 3.09 Cancer survival
- Indicator 3.10 Appropriate use of antibiotics
- Indicator 3.11 Management of diabetes
- Indicator 3.12 Delivery by caesarean section
- Indicator 3.13 Hysterectomy rates (600K PDF)
- Indicator 3.14 Hospital costs
- Indicator 3.15 Length of stay in hospital
- Indicator 3.16 Waiting times in emergency departments
- Indicator 3.17 Bulk billing for non-referred (GP) attendances
- Indicator 3.18 Availability of general practitioner services
- Indicator 3.19 Access to elective surgery
- Indicator 3.20 Electronic prescribing and clinical data in general practice (186K PDF)
- Indicator 3.21 Adverse events treated in hospitals
- Indicator 3.22 Enhanced Primary Care services
- Indicator 3.23 Health assessments by general practitioners
- Indicator 3.24 Accreditation in general practice
- Indicator 3.25 Health workforce
- International developments in health sector performance analysis (118K PDF)
- World Health Organization
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- International Health Policy Survey
- Performance indicators in other countries
- Using the National Health Performance Framework and benchmarking (73K PDF)
- Introduction
- The 2002 NHPC benchmarking workshop
- Future directions (70K PDF)
- Introduction (93K PDF)
- End matter
- Abbreviations (95K PDF)
- References
- Appendix 1: Membership of the National Health Performance Committee at July 2003
- Appendix 2: Data tables (296K PDF)
- Appendix 3: Technical notes (423K PDF)
- Appendix 4: Geographic classifications: RRMA, ARIA and ASGC Remoteness (112K PDF)
- Appendix 5: Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy and Disability Adjusted Life Years as performance measures for health status and outcomes
- Background and purpose
- The meaning and derivation of DALE and DALY
- Limitations on the use of DALE and DALY as health outcome measures
- Issues raised by the use of DALE and DALY as health status measures
- Issues for the National Health Performance Framework