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Report of the New South Wales Chief Health Officer |
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How to use this report |
The Web version of the Report of the New South Wales Chief Health Officer has a number of features which are designed to make it easier to navigate and to facilitate the re-use of the information contained in the Report in other documents, reports or presentations.
At the top right and in the middle of the footer of every page of the Report you will find a link back to the appropriate part of the Report's table of contents, which allows you to choose the next (or some other) page of the Report.
However, if you are using the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser (version 4.0 or later) or a Netscape browser (version 3.0 or later) or the Mozilla browser, you can take advantage of some additional navigation aids. Provided that JavaScript support is enabled in your browser (see here for instructions on how to enable it if it is not enabled or if you are not sure), you should see two pull-down selection lists (also known as "combo boxes") at the top and at the bottom of each page of the Report. The top of this pair of selection lists allows you to choose a chapter in the Report. The second of the pair of selection lists then allows you to choose a specific page from that chapter. As soon as you choose a page your browser will be redirected to it.
In addition, if you are using a Netscape or Mozilla browser, a pair of buttons labelled Previous page and Next page should appear to the right of the selection lists. Clicking on these buttons will take you to the previous or next page in the Report. This feature of the Report is currently disabled when Internet Explorer is used due to an anomoly in the JavaScript support in that browser. We are endeavouring to find a work-around for this problem.
If your browser supports JavaScript (and it is enabled) and if "cookies" are enabled in your browser, then it is possible to specify that larger graphs are displayed on each page. Larger graphs are recommended if the screen resolution of your computer is 800 x 600 pixels or greater. To enable larger graphs, choose Large graphs from the selection list near the top (in the Options section) of the Report's table of contents. This setting will then be permanently stored as a "cookie" on your computer.
Please note that if you choose to see larger graphs, the graphs may not fit on a single page if you try to print the Web page. For this reason, we have provided the ability to download and print a high-quality PDF (Acrobat) version of each page - see below for details.
On most pages of the report, the data used to construct the graphs can be viewed in table form by clicking on the "View Data Table" icon.
On many pages, additional tabular data is available - this is indicated by the "View Data Table, which contains Extra Data" icon.
When you click on either of these icons a separate browser window containing the data table will appear. Placing the data tables in a separate window makes the main indicator pages easier to read.
Each page of the Report allows a PDF (Acrobat) version of the entire page, including the graph and data table(s), to be downloaded and viewed or printed using free Adobe Acrobat Reader or some other PDF viewing software. Information about obtaining the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software can be found here. The main advantage of the PDF version of each page is that it prints out at much higher quality than printing out the page directly from your Web browser. This is particularly true of the graph contained on each page.
Each page of the Report which contains a graph also provides a link which allows you to download a version of the graph as an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file or as an Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) file. Files in these formats can be imported into most word processing, presentation and graphics software packages.
You can use the EPS file in a number of ways:
EMF graphs may be imported using many software packages (such as Microsoft Word) and may be printed using most printers. A Postscript printer is not required.
A CSV ("comma-separated-value" or "comma-and-quote-delimited") ASCII text file containing all the data which appears in each of the tables in the Report is also downloadable from each page of the Report which contains a table. The CSV files can be imported into most spreadsheets, databases, graphing and charting or statistical software packages for further manipulation or presentation, or into tables in most word processing packages.
| Print version: | Although this page can be printed directly from your Web browser, a higher quality version of this entire page (graph, table and text) is available as an Acrobat PDF file which can be printed or viewed on screen using free software. |
| Copyright notice: | This work is copyright NSW Department of Health, 2006. It may be reproduced in whole or in part, subject to the inclusion of an acknowledgement of the source. Commercial usage or sale is prohibited. |
| Suggested citation: | Population Health Division, The Health of the people of New South Wales - Report of the Chief Health Officer. Sydney: NSW Department of Health. Available at: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/toc/pre_useage.htm. Accessed (insert date of access). |
| Produced by: | Centre for Epidemiology and Research, Population Health Division, NSW Department of Health. |
| Last updated on: | 14 November 2006 |
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