Health-related behaviours contribute significantly to the quality of life a person will experience. Issues such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, and other conditions account for much of the burden of morbidity and mortality in later life.
Measuring and reporting health behaviours provides important information for planning public health programs and for evaluation, at the macro level, of the net gains of these programs. The health behaviours described in this session include; physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, overweight and obesity, sun protection, smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use.
Interpretation of apparent trends in some health indicators should be viewed with caution, because data come from a range of surveys that used different collection modes. They may reflect real changes in the prevalence of behaviours, or differences due to variations in sampling and data collection methods.
For details of the methods used for analysing data from the 2003 and 2004 NSW Health Surveys, and 2001 NSW Child Health Survey, refer to the Methods section.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's Health 2004. Canberra: AIHW, 2004.
Available at: www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10014
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NSW Department of Health. The health behaviours of secondary school students in New South Wales 2002. NSW Public Health Bull 2004; 15(S-2).
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Health Promotion Branch website at: www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/health-promotion
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. Measures of Australias progress. ABS Catalogue no. 1370.0. Canberra: ABS, 2006.
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Centre for Drug and Alcohol, NSW Department of Health. Available at: www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/dpb
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. O’Brien K Living dangerously: Australians with multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Bulletin no 24. AIHW Cat. No. AUS 57. Canberra: AIHW, 2005. Available at www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10103
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's health 2006. AIHW cat. no. AUS 73. Canberra: AIHW, 2006. Available at: www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10321
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Booth, ML. What strategies can be used to promote and maintain adequate levels of physical activity in Australian children? Med J Aust 2000a; 173: S7-S8.
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Booth, ML. What proportion of Australian children are sufficiently physically active? Med J Aust 2000b; 173: S6-S7.
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Centre for Epidemiology and Research. 2004 Report on adult health from the New South Wales Population Health Survey. N S W Public Health Bull, 2005; 16(S-1). Available at: www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/survey/hsurvey.html
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Commonwealth of Australia. National Alcohol Strategy 2006 - 2009. Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, 2006. Available at: www.alcohol.gov.au/internet/alcohol/publishing.nsf/Content/nas-06-09.
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Commonwealth of Australia. National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009. Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, 2005.
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Department of Health and Aged Care. National physical activity guidelines for adults.. Canberra: Australian Government, 1999 , reprinted in 2005. Available at: www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/BC3101B1FF200CA4CA256F9700154958/$File/adults_phys.pdf
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The information presented in this resource result from analyses of a variety of social and health focused datasets. These datasets originate from a variety of sources including Hunter New England Health, the NSW Department of Health, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The timing of the release of these data to third parties is controlled by the owner of these data. It is therefore possible for these organisations to publish data that they have not yet made available to Hunter New England Population Health for analysis and release. Users should therefore check the publications of these organisations as it is possible that they may have published even more up to date information on Hunter New England than those available in this resource. As this resource is an ongoing project, the indicators presented will be updated as soon as possible after the release of all datasets to Hunter New England Population Health. |
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Suggested citation: |
Hunter New England Population Health, Health in Hunter New England e-Resource, Hunter New England Area Health Service, 2007. Available at: http://www.hnehealth.nsw.gov.au/HNEPH/HHNE/beh/beh_intro.htm - Accessed (insert date of access). |
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Assistance from NSW Department of Health:
This resource is modified from work undertaken for the production of the electronic and hard copy versions of the report Health of the people of NSW: Report of the Chief Health Officer, (http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/) by the Centre for Epidemiology and Research of the NSW Department of Health. This work includes research and definition of indicators, programming framework, statistical programs, text and programming infrastructure for web publishing. Hunter New England Population Health has produced a local version of the resource reflecting local concerns, where appropriate, and ensuring that only minimal changes were made in other parts of the text and presentation in the interest of consistency at a state level. |
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Hunter New England Population Health,
Hunter New England Health, with assistance from Centre for Epidemiology and Research,
NSW Health and modified from the electronic report Health of the people of NSW: Report of the Chief Health Officer,
(http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/) |
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10 December 2007 |
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To view state data, relating to this indicator go to the report Health of the people of NSW: Report of the Chief Health Officer. (http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/) or intranet version |
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