| Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) provides access online to a complete range of products inlcudes the following:
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Apparent consumption data (ABS) provides a general overview of the supply and utilisation of approximately 130 basic foodstuff groups for the resident mean population in Australia. |
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Australia Now (Health) is a collection of statistics from Australian Bureau of Statistics on health expenditure, diabetes mellitus, mental health, cardiovascular health, family planning, and many more.
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4812.0 - Health Risk Factors, Australia. (2001) presents results from the National Health Survey (NHS) which was conducted throughout Australia from February to November 2001. |
| The following documents from ABS are specially relevant to Food and Nutrition Policy: |
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4364.0 National Health Survey 2001 survey was designed to obtain national benchmarks on a wide range of health issues, and to enable changes in health to be monitored over time.
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presents information on food and beverage consumption collected in the 1995 National Nutrition Survey (NNS).
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Note: If you are accessing these ABS documents from off-campus, the direct links above might not work (i.e. when the document is not FREE for download, you would be asked to purchase the document). In that case, please go back to this ABS link, then, click on Publication & data > publication > All by Catalogue/Subject to look up the documents by code numbers accordingly.
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| Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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The website provides extensive health and welfare statistics and information. Recommend the following report on Australia's Health 2004 |
| Social Health Atlas of Australia |
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Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide, 1999 consists
of 9 volumes - one for Australia as a whole, and one for each state or territory.
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