Your health: A report on the health of Victorians, 2007
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Overview
Your health: A report on the health of Victorians is the second of two reports about indicators of the health of Victorians and trends over time. It is the second of two two-yearly reports from Victoria’s Chief Health Officer to inform the community, including health planners, researchers, policy analysts and students, about the health of Victorians.
Previous Your Health Report 2005
Some indicators are based on pre-existing analyses of data available elsewhere on this Healthstatus web-site from the Victorian ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) study, the Victorian burden of disease study, and the Victorian population health survey (VPHS).
Some of the public health indicators, including indicators of mothers’ and children’s health, and communicable disease indicators
based on notifiable infectious diseases data, have been developed using data from other program areas in the department.
External sources of data (from the Victorian Cancer Registry and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), for example) were
used to develop additional indicators.
This report has six main topics:
- Health status
- Health-related behaviours
- Determinants of health
- Health outcomes
- Health and the environment
- Population sub groups
Health status
This section presents information on general health status and health outcome indicators on burden of disease, life expectancy, avoidable mortality, ambulatory care sensitive conditions and self-reported health.
Health–related behaviours
This section presents information on various risk factors and health–related behaviours. The selected public health indicators are smoking, nutrition, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity and screening participation.
Determinants of health
This section presents information on various determinants of health: the social and economic factors that influence health. It contains indicators such as educational attainment, household income and unemployment. Indicators of social capital are also presented.
Health outcomes
This section presents information on various health outcomes, including: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, asthma, injury and poisoning, mental health, musculoskeletal conditions and oral health. Communicable diseases are also presented in this section.
Health and the environment
This section presents indicators relating to the environment that have the potential to influence health. These include indicators of air quality, cooling tower water samples testing positive for Legionella, legionellosis notifications, water quality, fluoridation and days with high ultraviolet radiation (UVR) index.
Population subgroups
This chapter describes the health of selected population subgroups such as mothers and children, Indigenous people, socioeconomically disadvantaged people, people living in rural and regional areas, prisoners, people from non English speaking backgrounds, and refugees.
Appendix
Explanatory notes on data sources and methods used
References
ICD-10-AM Tables
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health - Preliminaries (828kb, pdf)
- Foreword
- Contents
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Victorian Department of Human Services regions
Health status (2,088kb, pdf)
- Burden of disease
- Life expectancy
- Avoidable mortality
- Ambulatory care sensitive conditions
- Self-rated health status
Determinants of health (270kb, pdf)
- Educational attainment
- Household income and unemployment
- Indicators of social capital
Health-related behaviours (450kb, pdf)
- Smoking
- Nutrition
- Alcohol consumption
- Physical activity/inactivity
- Screening participation
- Determinants of health
Health outcomes (2,625kb, pdf)
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Asthma
- Injury and poisoning
- Musculoskeletal conditions
- Oral health
- Communicable diseases
Health and the Environment (518kb, pdf)
- Air quality
- Smoke-free households with dependant children
- Legionella
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Water quality
- Hot weather
Population subgroups (2,774kb, pdf)
- Mothers and children
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Rural/regional populations
- Socio-economically disadvantaged populations
- Victorians from non-English speaking backgrounds
- Refugees
Appendix
(568kb pdf)
- Explanatory notes
- References
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health: A report on the health of Victorians 2007 - Entire report (6,852kb,
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