Publications

The fifteenth report of the Medical Training Review Panel (MTRP) covers the three levels of medical training in Australia, providing data on all trainees in undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational training programs in the last year, 2011.

• Annual reports
• Health workforce
• Health personnel
• Health care systems

The fourteenth annual report of the Medical Training Review Panel (MTRP).

• Annual reports
• Health care systems
• Health personnel
• Health workforce

OATSIHs Head Agreement and Funding Agreement

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Health care systems

Information booklet about cancer and what the government is doing about it.

• Cancer
• Chronic disease
• Health care systems
• Oncology

The report describes an epidemiological and economic analysis of five public health programs, namely: programs to reduce tobacco consumption, coronary heart disease, HIV/AIDS, measles and Hib-related diseases and road trauma. The report details the financial and economic return on investment of past public health programs associated with these areas.

• Health care systems
• Statistics

This project, initiated in 1996, is a first step towards transforming isolated health data sets (such as the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) data, Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) data and hospital morbidity data (HMD)) into information that may be used to inform policy.

• Health care systems

This study projects future health costs attributable to the progressive ageing of the Australian population based on extensive administrative data on medical practitioner visits (to GPs and specialists), prescription drug consumption and hospital admissions. Scenarios based on these cost data were applied to projections of the Australian population by age and sex out to 2051 — by which time the transient effects of the 'baby-boom' cohort will have worked their way through the system.

• Health care systems

This paper examines the nature of poverty and its relationship with health, including an exploration of the broad range of socio-economic factors associated with poor health and the identification of groups within the community facing particular disadvantage and vulnerability. The paper will then examine the current range of health strategies designed to counter the influence of these factors and highlight areas for futher research or policy development.

• Health care systems

This first paper in the series Occasional Papers: New Series, deals with Australian government involvement in health care; population health, particular challenges for the Australian health system and changing priorities.

• Health care systems

Australia is now much better placed to describe patterns of health and health inequity than it was even five years ago. This capacity needs to be further developed especially in moving away from more traditional health indicators such as mortality, morbidity and risk factors to other dimensions of health such as community capacity, and locational disadvantage. There also needs to be more emphasis on developing process or intermediate indicators for strategies such as intersectoral action and healthy public policy goals such as improved food supply.

• Health care systems

This page contains: First series 1997 - 1998 , New series 1999 - 2003, Health financing series 1999 - 2001.

• Ageing
• Health care systems