The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 provides a comprehensive assessment of the health status of Australians. The report measures mortality, disability, impairment, illness and injury arising from 176 diseases, injuries and risk factors using a common metric, the disability-adjusted life year or DALY, and methods developed by the Global Burden of Disease Study. Burden of disease analysis gives a unique perspective on health. Fatal and non-fatal outcomes are integrated, but can be examined separately as well. This report provides detailed estimates of the burden of premature mortality and disability for each disease and injury category by sex and age in 2003. It also assesses the burden attributable to each of 14 major risk factors, and inequalities in the disease burden associated with socioeconomic disadvantage and region. Estimates of the burden in 1993 and 2023 are compared with the burden in 2003.
In 1999 the AIHW published The burden of disease and injury in Australia (1996). This publication drew together and analysed an enormous amount of Australian and international epidemiological information.
Incidence, prevalence and disability states for 176 diseases and conditions for 18 age sex groups were estimated. In addition the impact of 10 important risk factors on each of these 176 diseases and conditions was estimated. Download the spreadsheets that contain this information.
The incidence, prevalence and disability state estimates for each disease and condition and the assumptions and references are contained in the YLD by disease area. Each disease is designated by an alphanumeric code, and the spreadsheets are stored in that order.
The summary spreadsheets bring together the detailed disease information.
The risk factor spreadsheets show the detailed calculations for each risk factor. This is the analysis behind the information published in Chapter 7 of the Burden of Disease and Injury report.