Table of contents
- Preliminary material (145K PDF)
- Half title page and verso
- Title page and verso
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Sections
- Background (112K PDF)
- Aims
- A review of the literature - risk factors, risk behaviours and cardiovascular problems
- Methods (96K PDF)
- The BEACH program
- The total data set (124K PDF)
- GP characteristics
- The patients
- The encounters
- The content of the encounters
- The problems
- GP's and cardiovascular encounter rates (140K PDF)
- Distribution of GP's by cardiovascular encounter rate
- Cardiovascular encounter rates by GP characteristics
- Characteristics of GP's with high, medium and low cardiovascular encounter rates
- GP characteristics by cardiovascular encounter rate: analysis of variance
- Conclusion
- Comparison of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular encounters and patients (254K PDF)
- Type of encounter
- The content of the encounters
- Characteristics of the patients
- Cardiovascular problems managed (115K PDF)
- Relative rate of cardiovascular problems and encounters
- Nature of cardiovascular morbidity
- Overview of management of cardiovascular problems
- Changes since 1991 (390K PDF)
- Changes in characteristics of participating GP's and the patients
- Comparison of cardiovascular encounter rates
- Most common cardiovascular problems managed
- Comparison of management of cardiovascular problems
- Comparison of medications prescribed for cardiovascular problems
- Conclusion
- Prevalence of cardiovascular problems among patients at encounters in general practice (165K PDF)
- Is the subsample representative?
- Current morbidity among patients encountered in general practice
- The prevalence of cardiovascular problems among patients encountered in general practice
- A grouped analysis of prevalence of cardiovascular problems in patients encountered in general practice
- Interrelationships of cardiovascular problems
- Prevalence of lipid disorder and diabetes in patients with cardiovascular disease
- Discussion
- Health risk behaviours in patients at cardiovascular encounters (128K PDF)
- Smoking
- Alcohol consumption
- Body mass index
- Alcohol consumption and body mass index
- Overview of these results
- Conclusion (42K PDF)
- Background (112K PDF)
- End matter (554K PDF)
- Reference List
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Appendixes
- Example of a recording form from 1998-99 BEACH data year
- Example of a recording form from 1999-00 BEACH data year
- GP characteristics questionnaire, 1998-99 BEACH data year
- GP characteristics questionnaire, 1999-00 BEACH data year
- The recording form used in the Australian Morbidity and Treatment Survey 1990-91
- Problem code groups from ICPC-2 used in this report