The Northern Territory Department of Health has a Hospitals Morbidity system in operation, which every hospital separation is identified, the principal diagnosis for which the patient was admitted to hospital is coded according to the ICD-9 classification, and a minimum data requirement is entered.

This report looks at 13 years of analysis on health of Aboriginal and non aboriginal people and the effects of lifestyle.

This publication is largely based on the results of a survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in the Northern Territory as a supplement to the monthly population survey in October 1994. The ABS has previously conducted surveys on tobacco consumption in the Northern Territory in October 1986 and in October 1990. Results of the latest survey presented in this publication highlight the changes that have happened across this period. This report aims to present the findings in a way that is informative, easy to read and easy to understand. The relatively small and dispersed nature of the Territory's population and the small sample size (approximately 0.8 percent) have meant that the analysis has been limited to the Darwin urban statistical division. Further, tobacco consumption by Aboriginal people was not examined within this survey. Despite these restrictions, the results are worthwhile and give us a good understanding of tobacco consumption in Darwin.

This short style guide has been approved by the Epidemiology Branch Director for mandatory use by all Branch authors. Your Branch Head must be satisfied that your material conforms to this guide before it can be forwarded to Forms & Resources section for further processing or circulated outside the Department. Use of the guide will help ensure consistency and quality in Epidemiology communication, and conserve time, energy and expense in later editing and formatting.

In October 1994 the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) monthly population survey included a supplementary paper for Territory Health Services (THS) on Health Behaviours and Related Risk Factors. The survey investigated people's behaviour in relation to food consumption and smoking. Questions were also asked about attitudes to smoking in enclosed public places. The survey was administered across the Territory to people 18 years and over. Only information from Darwin is reported here due to the low numbers of people sampled from elsewhere in the Territory. The main findings of the survey on food consumption are summarised below. Page 2 missing in original.

To assist the development of the Northern Territory policies, the Primary Health and Coordinated Care and the Epidemiology Branches of Territory Health Services have collaborated to produce this report on the health status of children and young people in the Northern Territory. An important objective of the undertaking was, however, to produce a report in a format that informs and commands the attention of not only health professionals but the community at large.

The Northern Territory has the highest smoking rates of any state or territory in Australia. This study aims to quantify the effect of smoking on mortality and hospital morbidity among residents of the Northern Territory for the period 1986–1995.

This report presents the results of the Growth Assessment and Action data collection detailed above. Four key measurements were taken: height, weight, haemoglobin and head circumference. Height, weight and haemoglobin were measured in children aged less than 60 months. Head circumference was measured in children aged 0-6 months inclusive.

Mortality data can be used to highlight a community's health problem areas as a basis for developing health services. Although mortality data are widely available and are useful indicators of the health status of a population, mortality data have their limitations and it is necessary to go beyond information on mortality to gain a full picture of the health status of a population. The complexity of health status requires mortality information to be divided into different views, commonly by age and sex and Indigenous status. Original document is missing pages 190 and 191.

This report presents the results of the Growth Assessment and Action data collection detailed above. Four key measurements were taken: height, weight, haemoglobin and head circumference. Height, weight and haemoglobin were measured in children aged less than 60 months. Head circumference was measured in children aged 0-6 months inclusive.

This report presents the results of the Growth Assessment and Action data collection detailed above. Four key measurements were taken: height, weight, haemoglobin and head circumference. Height, weight and haemoglobin were measured in children aged less than 60 months. Head circumference was measured in children aged 0-6 months inclusive.

This comprehensive publication follows a series which reported on health status in the NT: Health Indicators in the Northern Territory published in 1986 (Devanesen and others) and Northern Territory Health Outcomes, Morbidity and Mortality, 1979–91 published in 1995 (Plant and others).

The Northern Territory Health and Wellbeing Survey was conducted in December 2000 by the Department of Health and Community Services. It is the first large-scale population health survey in the Northern Territory to provide statistically robust information on the residents of metropolitan, rural and remote regions. Information on a range of health related topics was collected by telephone from 2,498 residents aged 18 years and over from metropolitan, rural and remote areas. The information provided by the respondents will assist the Department in developing and refining policies and programs aimed at improving the health of the population.

The Growth Assessment and Action Program (GAA) was introduced in the Centre region or the Northern Territory in 1997 and expanded to the Top End region in the second half of 1998. The objectives of the GAA program are to undertake timely and accurate assessment of the nutritional status of individual children, ensure an appropriate and timely response is made ( especially when growth faltering occurs in individual children) and provide regular information on growth patterns. The program is primarily targeted at children under five years of age resident in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. The GAA program has three components: • Growth monitoring ( or assessing) of individual children • Growth promotion or initiation of action to promote growth of individual children • Surveillance of growth at the population level. As part of the surveillance component of the program, growth measurement data on individual children are collated and used to inforn1 on growth status of children at the population level (community, district and territory levels). Estimates of child growth at population levels are only useful if they are based on growth data containing records for as many individual children as possible.

This survey was undertaken by the Department of Health and Community Services (DHCS),in partnership with the National Heart Foundation (NT Division). Its primary aim was to measure levels of physical activity undertaken by residents of the Northern Territory aged between 18 and 54 years. The survey also gathered information on Territorians' knowledge and attitude in relation to current recommendations for participation in physical activity

This report is the first volume in the Mortality in the Northern Territory 1981-2000 series, and provides an overview of information on Northern Territory (NT) deaths for the years 1981 to 2000. It provides detailed statistics for deaths from all causes, and for each of the major International Classification of Disease (ICD) chapters. Age-adjusted death rate, age-specific death rate and life expectancy are used to describe and compare health status within the Northern Territory population. Australian data is provided for comparison, where appropriate. The two subsequent volumes of this series provide disease specific causes of death including analysis of associated and underlying causes of death.

This report attempts to provide policy makers, researchers, health professionals and others, from a broad range of backgrounds, with a basis from which to better understand the issues confronting women’s health and wellbeing in the NT. The report has been developed based on the best available information, and the data presented are believed to be the most complete and up to date available. While not definitive, this report provides a comprehensive and reliable picture of the health and wellbeing of NT women. It covers the population characteristics of NT women, the social environment in which they live, their pregnancy and childbirth experiences, information on health and health behaviour and available health services.

The key purpose of this report is to assess the magnitude of suicide deaths among Territorians. Information on the demographic, socio-economic and behavioural factors associated with suicide has been used to identify population groups most at risk. The report also includes information on attempted suicide by analysing available data on clients admitted to public hospitals with a diagnosis of intentional self-harm.

This report focuses on the measurement of social-emotional wellbeing and learning outcomes by connecting information from teachers about individual school children with information from parents collected during a detailed telephone survey. This report will inform practice and policy development in health, community and education services for children.

This report, Growing up in the Territory: Parent Survey, provides an invaluable picture of young children in the Northern Territory. It is the first time that a snapshot has been taken in this way of various aspects of Territory Children’s health and wellbeing and it represents a further step in improving the availability of information to guide action in their interests.