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 319 3; Cat. no. PHE 45; 359pp.; Out of print
Full publication
Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material (187K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- Lists of tables and figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Symbols used in the tables and figures
- Overview (212K PDF)
- Background
- Data quality and analytical methods
- Report structure
- Context
- Key points
- Demography
- Overall death rates
- Life expectancy
- Changes in death rates, 1992-1999
- Broad causes of death
- Specific causes of death
- Comments on the findings
- Sections
- Introduction (159K PDF)
- Characteristics of rural and remote populations
- Technical notes (313K PDF)
- Indigenous data quality issues
- Population data and calculation of death rates
- Effect of Indigenous data quality on reporting non-Indigenous deaths in this report
- Statistical methods
- Geographic classification
- Cause of deaths
- Notes on data presentation
- All cause mortality (344K PDF)
- Overview
- Trends in mortality
- Death rates
- Variation within areas
- Variation by age group
- 'Excess' deaths
- Life expectancy
- Mortality due to specific causes
- Circulatory disease (296K PDF)
- Overview -- circulatory diseases
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Stroke
- Rheumatic heart disease
- 'Other' diseases of the circulatory system
- Neoplasms (347K PDF)
- Overview -- neoplasms
- Lung cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Melanoma
- 'Other' neoplasms
- Respiratory disease (330K PDF)
- Overview -- respiratory diseases
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pneumonia
- Asthma
- Influenza
- 'Other' respiratory diseases
- Injury (309K PDF)
- Overview -- injury
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Suicide
- Interpersonal violence
- Accidental shooting
- 'Other' injury
- 'Other' diseases (229K PDF)
- Overall mortality due to 'all other causes'
- Diabetes
- Specified renal disease
- All other causes of death not elsewhere described
- End matter
Recommended citation
AIHW 2003. Rural, regional and remote health, a study on mortality. Rural Health Series no. 2. Cat. no. PHE 45. Canberra: AIHW.