The Menzies Nous Australian Health Survey 2012

The Third Biennial National Survey conducted by the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Nous Group (Nous) has been published, providing key findings about the views held by Australians on their own health, on the Australian healthcare system, and aged care services. Previous surveys were conducted in 2008 and 2010.The Australian Health Survey 2012 was conducted via a phone interview of 1200 people in July 2012. Interviews were conducted by telephone using random digit dialling Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI).To enable analysis of trends since 2008, a number of questions regarding the health of Australians and use of the health care system were consistently asked in 2008, 2010 and 2012. To reflect changes in the health care system, some minor amendments and refinements were made to these questions in the 2012 survey.  A number of questions were also asked for the first time this year – particularly those regarding Australian perspectives of the aged-care reforms. Data from all surveys have been post-weighted by age, sex, state and education to reflect the population distribution.