Introduction
This report presents the first results from the 2008 New South Wales Population Health Survey and compares those results with previous years.
NSW Health has identified the 25 indicators for inclusion in this summary report:
Health behaviours
Risk-alcohol drinking, high risk-alcohol drinking, influenza immunisation, pneumococcal immunisation, injury prevention (smoke alarms), adequate fruit intake, adequate vegetable intake, 3 or more serves of vegetables, consumption of lower fat or skim milk, adequate physical activity, current smoking, and smoke-free households.
Health status
Self-rated health, current asthma, diabetes or high blood glucose, mental health (psychological distress), oral health (all natural teeth missing), overweight and obesity, and obesity.
Health services
Difficulties getting health care, emergency department care rating, hospital care rating, and public dental care rating.
Social capital
Most people can be trusted, and visit neighbours.
These indicators are presented in graphical and tabular form. Each indicator includes: a line graph and table by age group, sex and year; a line graph and table by socioeconomic status, sex and year; a bar chart and table by area health service and sex; and, a table by area health service, sex and year. The notes below each indicator contain the definition of the indicator and the number of persons who responded to the question each year.
The table below the indicator provides prevalence estimates and 95 per cent confidence intervals. The confidence intervals provide a range of values that should contain the actual value 95 per cent of the time. In general, a wider confidence interval reflects less certainty in the estimate for that indicator. The width of the confidence interval relates to the sample size for that indicator. If confidence intervals do not overlap then the observed estimates are significantly different. If confidence intervals overlap slightly the observed estimates may be significantly different but further testing needs to be done to establish that significance. All differences reported in this report are as a result of significance testing (see below).
The report also contains an appendix that provides summary tables which contain all of the indicators in the report, by year and sex, for persons aged 16 years and over (as per the report), and persons 18 years and over, to allow comparisons with other state and national health surveys that may have reported on persons 18 years and over, such as the National Health Survey.
This report is available in PDF and HTML versions, which can be downloaded from the New South Wales Population Health Survey website at www.health.nsw.gov.au/publichealth/surveys/index.asp. Further information about the New South Wales Population Health Survey, including previous survey results and methods, can be obtained from the website.
| Source: | New South Wales Population Health Survey 2008 (HOIST). Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health. |
| Print version: | Although this page can be printed directly from your web browser, a higher quality version is available as a PDF file that can be printed or viewed on screen. |
| Produced by: | Centre for Epidemiology and Research, Population Health Division, NSW Department of Health. |
| Last updated on: | 1 March 2009 |