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released: 31 Oct 2003 author: AIHW

This report summarises the findings of the AIHW report Rural, Regional and Remote Health: A Study on Mortality. This report updates and builds on findings from the 1998 AIHW report, Health in Rural and Remote Australia, which identified higher death rates outside major metropolitan areas. However, it has been unclear how much of these higher death rates are due to rural health issues, or Indigenous health issues. This report largely resolves this uncertainty by controlling for Indigenous status and describing for each region: differences in death rates; trends in mortality over time; and how many more deaths occurred than were expected (if lower major cities rates had applied in each region).

ISSN 1448 9775; ISBN 978 1 74024 320 9; Cat. no. PHE 49; 52pp.; Out of print

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Lists of tables and figures
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    • Background and introduction
      • Data quality and analytical methods
      • Context
    • Key points
      • Demography
      • Overall death rates
      • Life expectancy
      • Changes in death rates, 1992-1999
      • Broad causes of death
      • Specific causes of death
    • Technical notes
      • Measures of mortality
      • Data presentation
      • Indigenous and non-Indigenous data: data quality issues
      • Geographic classification
      • Cause of deaths
    • Mortality
      • Overall death rates
      • Life expectancy
      • Trends in death rates
    • Broad causes of mortality
    • Mortality due to specific causes
      • Circulatory disease
        • Trends in mortality due to circulatory disease
        • Specific circulatory diseases
      • Neoplasms
        • Trends in mortality due to neoplasms
        • Specific neoplasms
      • Respiratory disease
        • Trends in mortality due to respiratory diseases
        • Specific respiratory diseases
      • Injury
        • Trends in mortality due to injury and poisoning
        • Specific injuries
      • 'All other causes'
        • Specific 'other' causes
    • Comments on the findings
  • End matter
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2003. Rural, regional and remote health, a study on mortality: summary of findings. Rural Health Series no. 3. Cat. no. PHE 49. Canberra: AIHW.