A Social Health Atlas of Australia [Second Edition] - Volume 3: Victoria

The information in this atlas adds to a convincing body of evidence built up over a number of years in Australia on the striking disparities in health that exist between groups in the population. People of low socioeconomic status (those who are relatively socially or economically deprived) experience worse health than those of higher socioeconomic status for almost every major cause of mortality and morbidity. The challenge for policy makers, health practitioners and governments is to find ways to address these health inequities.

Authored by PHIDU

Published: December 1999; Available free online; Printed copies: $20.00 from Unibooks

Atlas extras:     Fact sheets     Data     Graphs     Errata

Contents (80 kB)

Executive summary

1 Introduction (367 kB)
2 Methods

3 Demography and socioeconomic status (2.3 MB)

Age distribution

Families

Labour force

Educational participation and achievement

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

People born in predominantly non-English speaking countries

Housing

SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage

4 Income support payments (843 kB)

5 Health status (2.1 MB)

Synthetic predictions of selected health status measures

People reporting their health as fair or poor

Physical Component Score, SF36

Handicap status

Deaths by sex and cause

Years of potential life lost

Total Fertility Rate

6 Utilisation of health services (5.4 MB)

Hospital admissions

General medical practitioner (GP services)

Immunisation status of one year old children

7 Availability of selected health services (797 kB)

Population per GP

Hospital beds

Residential care places

8 Statistical analysis (726 kB)

Correlation matrices (102 kB)

9 Summary of findings (1.1 MB)

Appendix 1 (376 kB)

Supporting documentation

Bibliography (26 kB)

Index (18 kB)