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.

Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for health.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the level, pattern and prevalence of alcohol consumption among the NT population.

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.

This report provides an overview of the health and wellbeing of young people in the Northern Territory. It is the second in a series and like the previous report released in 1998, includes both health outcome indicators and information on key determinants of health and wellbeing. The availability of information has improved substantially over the past eight years, which has allowed the inclusion of new and expanded information. In this report there is a continued focus on the difference in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Territorians. In addition this second report is able to provide improved trend information so that current data can becompared with information in the first report.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

The aim of the Northern Territory Government’s Growth Assessment and Action (GAA) program is to improve the growth and nutritional status of children 0-5 years living in remote communities. GAA involves regular monitoring of growth and implementation of early action if growth falters. This report presents the results of the GAA data collection.

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).

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.

Executive summary This report embraces the broad notion of health, as described by the World health organisation (Who) in the declaration of alma-ata, as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. The aim of the report is to assist policy makers by providing a single source of information with which to guide the development of policies and programs targeting older people in the Northern Territory (NT).

This report summarises data from the 2022 Northern Territory Urban and Township Adult Population Health Survey (NTUTAPHS). The survey collected data on socioeconomic and demographic details, self-reported general health status, chronic health conditions, mental health conditions and health risk factors including smoking, physical activity, nutrition and body mass. Eligible participants were NT residents aged 18 and over with a mobile number listed on the Integrated Public Number Database, excluding those living in remote Aboriginal communities (defined by postcodes). The descriptive statistical outcomes in weighted proportion are presented to portray the sampled NT population, as well as for sub-population groups where the results are considered statistically valid.

The report provides an overview of hospital admissions in the five NT public hospitals for the period from 1976 to 2008. Information is provided on trends in hospital separation rates and length of stay for both NT Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Information on total admissions is available for all years, while information for specific conditions is provided from 1992 onwards. The information is presented by financial year.