2010 Report of theChief Health Officer

• 2010 Home page
• Index: The Health of Queenslanders 2010
• 2010 Introduction
• Chapter 1: Indicators of progress
• Chapter 2: A profile of Queensland's population
• Chapter 3: Wellness and illness
• Chapter 4: Health outcomes
• Chapter 5: Risk and protective factors
• Chapter 6: Progress and challenges
• Key documents to guide actions
• A note on terminology and data
• Definitions and abbreviations
• Methodology and data sources
• References
• Errata
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Index: The Health of Queenslanders 2010

Introduction

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• Foreword
• Summary
• Are we making progress and what are the challenges
• A call to action
• Key documents to guide actions
• A note on terminology and data
• Definitions and abbreviations

Chapter 1: Indicators of progress

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• Table 1: Population health indicators 2000 to 2010 [PDF is split into females, males, persons] [Microsoft Excel includes females, males, persons - 2000 kb]

Chapter 2: A profile of Queensland's population

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• Population growth
• Age and sex distribution
• Geographic distribution
• Areas of socioeconomic disadvantage
• Indigenous status
• Cultural and linguistically diverse populations

Chapter 3: Wellness and illness, headline indicators

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• Self reported health and quality of life
• Burden of disease
• Life expectancy
• Infant and maternal health
• Deaths - all causes and avoidable
• Hospitalisations - all causes, projections and preventable

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Chapter 4: Health outcomes

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• Broad cause health outcomes
• Health system expenditure - an overview
• Cancer
• Coronary heart disease and stroke
• Diabetes
• Mental health and mental disorders
• Suicide
• COPD and asthma
• Road transport and fall injuries
• Selected communicable diseases
  • influenza
  • Hendra virus
  • Dengue
  • HIV and AIDS
  • viral hepatitis
  • foodborne illness and gastrointestinal illness
  • measles
  • pertussis
• Other selected conditions
  • adult onset hearing loss
  • end-stage kidney disease
  • otitis media
  • rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
  • tuberculosis

Chapter 5: Risk and protective factors

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• Tobacco smoking
• Alcohol
• Illicit drugs
• Overweight and obesity
• Food and nutrition
• Physical inactivity
• High blood pressure
• High blood cholesterol
• Cancer screening
• Sun safety
• Water fluoridation
• Immunisation
• Unsafe sex

Chapter 6: Progress and challenges

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• Toward Q2 targets: Are we making progress?
• Is health inequality changing?
• Health system impacts: 2010 and beyond

References

• Methodology and data sources
• References

Errata

• Errata