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9 Health<br />

Introduction 327<br />

Health status 327<br />

Health and wellbeing 328<br />

Morbidity 329<br />

Article—Long-term mortality trends 330<br />

National Health Priority Areas 334<br />

Cardiovascular health 334<br />

Cancer control 336<br />

Incidence 336<br />

Mortality 336<br />

Cancer screening 337<br />

Injuries and deaths due to external causes 337<br />

Diabetes mellitus 340<br />

Mental health 341<br />

Policy initiatives 341<br />

Prevalence of mental disorders and self-harm 341<br />

Trends in institutional care 342<br />

Asthma 343<br />

Mortality 343<br />

Communicable diseases and children’s immunisation 344<br />

Communicable diseases 344<br />

HIV and AIDS 346<br />

Children’s immunisation 348<br />

Article—Chronic diseases and risk factors 348<br />

Health care delivery and financing 352<br />

Government role 352<br />

Private sector role 353<br />

National health care system 353<br />

Medicare levy 353<br />

The Commonwealth Government’s funding of hospitals 354<br />

Total health expenditure 354<br />

Hospitals 355<br />

Public hospitals 355<br />

Private hospitals 355<br />

Hospital care under Medicare 356<br />

Medicare benefits for private doctors’ and optometrists’<br />

services 356<br />

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) 357

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