2012
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (2012)
Summary of Australian Indigenous health, 2011.
Perth, WA: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012)
Australia's health 2012.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012)
Australia's hospitals 2010-11, at a glance.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012)
Australian hospital statistics 2010-11.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012)
Australian hospital statistics 2010-11 supplementary tables.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012)
Australian hospital statistics 2011-12: elective surgery waiting times.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012)
Australian hospital statistics 2011-12: emergency department care.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012)
Surgery in Australian hospitals 2010–11.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Medical Association (2012)
AMA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health audit report: progress to date and challenges that remain.
Canberra: Australian Medical Association
This report card presents the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Taskforce on Indigenous health's audit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services. The report card considers the progress that has been made by Australian governments in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, and the challenges that still exist, as measured against the key recommendations the AMA has made in five priority areas over the last 10 years, including:
- provision of primary health care appropriate to need
- strong workforce for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
- high quality health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- health risk factors and social determinants
- governance and monitoring.
The report lists the recommendations together with major government measures, programs and initiatives that have been adopted, the challenges that still exist and the work that still needs to be done.
Abstract adapted from AMA
Australian Medical Association (2012)
AMA Indigenous health report cards [2002 - 2011].
Canberra: Australian Medical Association
Bar-Zeev SJ, Barclay L, Farrington C, Kildea S (2012)
From hospital to home: the quality and safety of a postnatal discharge system used for remote dwelling Aboriginal mothers and infants in the top end of Australia.
Midwifery; 28(3): 366–373
Bentley JP, Taylor LK, Brandt PG (2012)
Reporting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on the NSW Admitted Patient Data Collection: the 2010 Data Quality Survey.
NSW Public Health Bulletin; 23(2): 17-20
Davidson PM, MacIsaac A, Cameron J, Jeremy R, Mahar L, Anderson I (2012)
Problems, solutions and actions: addressing barriers in acute hospital care for Indigenous Australians and New Zealanders.
Heart, Lung and Circulation; 21(10): 639–643
Guthrie J (2012)
Estimating the magnitude of potentially avoidable hospitalisations of Indigenous children in the Australian Capital Territory: some methodological challenges.
Australian Aboriginal Studies; 2012(1): 92-97
Health Statistics New South Wales (2012)
Health statistics New South Wales: selected reports: associated information for hospitalisations for all causes by Aboriginality.
Sydney: NSW Ministry of Health
Katzenellenbogen J, Sanfilippo F, Briffa T, Hobbs M, Knuiman M, Dimer L, Taylor K, Thompson S (2012)
Factors associated with discharge against medical advice within year of first-ever IHD hospital admissions in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Western Australians.
Heart, Lung and Circulation; 21(10): 658
Kelly J, Dwyer J, Pekarsky B, Mackean T, Willis E, Battersby M, Glover J (2012)
Managing two worlds together: stage 2 - patient journey mapping tools.
Melbourne: The Lowitja Institute
This paper describes the patient journey mapping tool and frameworks used in the Managing two worlds together (MTWT) project. Through interviews and focus groups with patients, their carer/family, and health care providers, the paper explores the barriers and enablers, gaps and strategies in relation to the journeys of country Aboriginal patients from rural and remote locations to city hospitals and their return. The primary aim of the MTWT project is to enhance existing knowledge of the strengths, and areas of improvement, in the care of Aboriginal patients from rural and remote areas of South Australia by exploring what happens when they come to Adelaide for hospital care. The project is comprised of two stages, with Stage 1 focusing on the problems, and Stage 2 focusing on solutions. The patient journey mapping tools are the first output of Stage 2.
Abstract adapted from Managing two worlds together: stage 2 - patient journey mapping tools
Li SQ, Pircher SLM, Guthridge SL (2012)
Trends in alcohol-attributable hospitalisation in the Northern Territory, 1998–99 to 2008–09.
Medical Journal of Australia; 197(6): 341-344
New South Wales Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence (2012)
The health of Aboriginal people of NSW: report of the Chief Health Officer 2012.
Sydney: New South Wales Ministry of Health
Pircher SLM, Li SQ, Guthridge SL (2012)
Trend analysis of hospital admissions attributable to tobacco smoking, Northern Territory Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations, 1998 to 2009.
BMC Public Health; 12: 545
Retrieved 24 July 2012 from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/545
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (2012)
Report on government services 2012.
Melbourne: Productivity Commission
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (2012)
Report on government services 2012: Indigenous compendium.
Canberra: Productivity Commission
This report draws on the Report on government services 2012 to present data specific to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. It reports on the delivery of mainstream services to Indigenous people including services for:
- early childhood, education and training
- justice
- emergency management
- health
- community services
- housing and homelessness.
Performance reporting focuses on the degree to which objective for a service is met. The report details the objective (outcomes) for each services stated and the performance indicators measuring the achievement of each objective.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Thomson N, MacRae A, Brankovich J, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, Maling C, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Urquhart B (2012)
Overview of Australian Indigenous health status, 2011.
Perth, WA: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Wilson IB, Hawkins S, Green S, Archer JS (2012)
Suboptimal anti-epilepsy drug use is common among Indigenous patients with seizures presenting to the emergency department.
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience; 19(1): 187–189
2011
Alan J, Burmas M, Preen D, Pfaff J (2011)
Inpatient hospital use in the first year after release from prison: a Western Australian population-based record linkage study.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health; 35(3): 264-269
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)
Australia's hospitals 2009-10: at a glance.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)
Australian hospital statistics 2009-10.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)
Australian hospital statistics 2010–11: emergency department care and elective surgery waiting times.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)
Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2008–09.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This report, sixth in the series which commenced in 1998, presents comprehensive information on health expenditure for Indigenous people, including comparisons to health expenditure for non-Indigenous people, and, where possible, outlines changes over time.
The report presents information on the following:
- population, health status and incomes of Indigenous people
- health expenditure by all levels of government, and non-government health expenditure
- health funding by all levels of government, and non-government health funding.
The main findings of the report include the following:
- When compared to non-Indigenous population, Indigenous people are high users of publicly funded health services, and low users of medical, pharmaceutical, dental and other health services that are, for the most part, privately funded.
- Community health services, including the Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, accounted for just over 22% of all Indigenous health expenditure, compared to 4.5% of non-Indigenous health expenditure.
- The Australian, state and territory governments combined funded 91% of the total health expenditure for Indigenous Australians, compared to 69.5% of the total health expenditure for non-Indigenous Australians.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)
Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2008–09: an analysis by remoteness and disease.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011)
Older people leaving hospital: a statistical overview of the Transition Care Program in 2008–09.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Clement Z (2011)
Role of discharge planning in avoiding rehospitalisation in an Aboriginal man following head and neck surgery: a case report.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal; 35(2): 20-22
Durey A, Thompson SC, Wood M (2011)
Time to bring down the twin towers in poor Aboriginal hospital care: addressing institutional racism and misunderstandings in communication.
Internal Medicine Journal; 42(1): 17-22
Li SQ, Pircher SLM, Guthridge SL, Condon JR, Wright AJ (2011)
Hospital admissions in the Northern Territory, 1976 to 2008.
Darwin: Northern Territory Department of Health
Slack-Smith LM, Read AW, Colvin LJ, Leonard H, Kilpatrick N, McAullay D, Messer LB (2011)
Total population investigation of dental hospitalizations in Indigenous children under five years in Western Australia using linked data.
Australian Dental Journal; 56(4): 358-364
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (2011)
Report on government services 2011: Indigenous compendium.
Canberra: Productivity Commission
Victorian Department of Health (2011)
Koori health counts! Victorian Aboriginal hospital data 2009-10.
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Health
Western Australian Drug and Alcohol Office (2011)
Alcohol-related hospitalisations and deaths in Western Australia: Drug and Alcohol Office surveillance report November 2011.
Perth, WA: Western Australian Drug and Alcohol Office
This series of 10 reports provides information on the prevalence of alcohol consumption, alcohol-related hospitalisations and alcohol-related deaths in the metropolitan, rural and remote areas of Western Australia. The reports were collated by the Western Australian Drug and Alcohol Office with the assistance of the Department of Health and include:
- State report
- north metropolitan area
- south metropolitan area
- South West
- Great Southern
- Wheatbelt
- Midwest
- Goldfields
- Kimberley
- Pilbara.
Abstract adapted from Western Australian Drug and Alcohol Office
Zhao Y, You J, Guthridge SL, Lee AH (2011)
A multilevel analysis on the relationship between neighbourhood poverty and public hospital utilization: is the high Indigenous morbidity avoidable?.
BMC Public Health; 11: 737
Retrieved 27 September 2011 from http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-737
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