ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics

AIFS Australian Institute of Family Studies

AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

AR–DRG Australian Refined – diagnosis related group

ATSIC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

BEACH Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health

CAEPR Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

CHINS Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey

CHIP Community Housing and Infrastructure Program

DRG diagnosis related group

GP general practitioner

HREOC Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

HIPP Health Infrastructure Priority Project

ICD International Classification of Diseases

NAHS National Aboriginal Health Strategy

NATSIS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey

NCEPH National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health

NHS National Health Survey

OATSIH Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

PBS Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme

SLA statistical local area

SRS simple random sampling

SMR standardised morbidity ratio