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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - 2008 Report & Report Summary

This page provides information on the 2008 Report and Report Summary

Full Report:

Printable PDF version: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - 2008 Report (PDF 4218 KB).

The same report in smaller sections:
Preliminaries & Chapters 1 - 2: HPF Pre & Ch1-2 (PDF 583 KB)
Chapters 3 - 4: HPF Ch3-4 (PDF 1139 KB)
Chapter 5: HPF Ch5 (PDF 1363 KB)
Chapter 6 and appendices: HPF Ch6 & Apps (PDF 1630 KB)

Report Summary

Printable PDF version: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - 2008 Report Summary (PDF 1373 KB).
An html version of the Report Summary is in preparation

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (HPF) has been developed under the auspice of the Australian Health Minister's Advisory Council (AHMAC). The HPF is designed to inform policy analysis, planning and program implementation. The Report provides high-quality contextual data on progress towards the COAG ‘Closing the Gap’ agenda.

This is the second report against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework and it reports against 71 measures across three domains:

• Health status and outcomes
• Determinants of health including socioeconomic and behavioural factors, and
• Health system performance.

The Report finds that there have been improvements in some aspects of health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, while some areas are unchanged and some are worsening.

• Areas of improvement include: overall mortality and infant mortality, deaths caused by circulatory disease, expansion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care, antenatal care, immunisation, education and unemployment.

• Areas of concern include: deaths caused by chronic diseases, injury, end stage kidney disease, social and emotional well-being, low birth weight, chronic ear disease, oral health, sexually transmissible infections, social determinants of health, smoking including smoking during pregnancy, alcohol, physical activity, nutrition, obesity, relative per capita health expenditure, early detection and early treatment, access to prescription medicine, numbers of Indigenous Australians in the health workforce and access to health services.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) prepared the data for the 2008 Report and has published more detailed analyses of each measure on their website: The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

You can view the original HPF Measures by clicking on the following link. Health Performance Framework Measures Specifications

Other publications in the HPF series:
2006 Report
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework

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