Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
    • Overview
    • Snapshot of the health of Australia's prisoners
  • Body section
    1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Background
      • 1.2 Prisoner health services in Australia
      • 1.3 National Prisoner Health Census method
      • 1.4 Report structure
    1. Overview
      • 2.1 Prison environment
      • 2.2 Australia's prisoners
      • 2.3 Prison entrants
    1. Health conditions
      • 3.1 Mental health
      • 3.2 Head injury
      • 3.3 Communicable diseases
      • 3.4 Chronic conditions
      • 3.5 Women's health
    1. Health behaviours
      • 4.1 Tobacco smoking
      • 4.2 Risky alcohol consumption
      • 4.3 Illicit drug use
      • 4.4 Unprotected sex
      • 4.5 Health service use
    1. Prison health services
      • 5.1 Visits by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations
      • 5.2 Referrals to prison mental health services
      • 5.3 Identification of suicide or self-harm risk
      • 5.4 Transfers from prison clinic to public hospitals
      • 5.5 Immunisation
      • 5.6 Discharge planning
      • 5.7 Use of prison clinic
      • 5.8 Problems managed in prison clinics
      • 5.9 Initiator of clinic visits
      • 5.10 Type of health professional seen in clinic visits
      • 5.11 Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment
      • 5.12 Medication
      • 5.13 Full-time equivalent staffing ratios
    1. Deaths
      • 6.1 Deaths in custody
      • 6.2 Deaths following release from prison
    1. Comparisons with the general community
      • 7.1 Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations
      • 7.2 The general Australian population
    1. Data gaps and future directions
      • 8.1 Missing information and unavailable data
      • 8.2 Indicators not included in this report
      • 8.3 Future directions for the Census
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A 2009–2010 comparisons
      • Appendix B List of indicators
      • Appendix C Data sources
      • Appendix D Prisoner health services in Australia
      • Appendix E Key policy directions
      • Appendix F Prisoner health legislation in Australia
      • Appendix G Prisons in Australia
      • Appendix H Prisoner health Census forms
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
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