Australian health data supplied to the World Health Organization (WHO)
OECD announcements
Health at a glance 2009: OECD indicators released (9 December 2009)
OECD Health Data 2009 released (1 July 2009)
AIHW new releases
Adoptions Australia 2008-09 (5 February 2010) (media release and publication)
Community housing 2008-09 (28 January 2010) (publication)
Public rental housing 2008-09 (28 January 2010) (publication)
State owned and managed Indigenous housing 2008-09 (28 January 2010) (publication)
Child protection Australia 2008-09 (21 January 2010) (media release and publication)
Australia has an obligation to supply health and related data to WHO. These
data serve many purposes, including health monitoring, service planning and
research. Australia benefits from this in that it allows for international
comparisons of health, thus contributing to the collective good, and identifying
opportunities for health system improvement.
The purpose of this page is:
- To identify health related data sets supplied to WHO by Australian agencies such as the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing and the Australian Bureau of Statistics;
- To identify WHO publications that present Australian data and provide tables or links to them;
- To identify data that WHO requests but that Australia is currently not able to supply, and
- To identify methods used to transfer Australian data into published data.
Queries regarding Australian health data provided to WHO should be directed to