The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003
released: 25 May 2007 author: Begg S, Vos T, Barker B, Stevenson C, Stanley L & Lopez A media release
'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 mortality and disability for each disease and injury category by sex and age. It also assesses the burden attributable to each of 14 major risk factors, and inequalities in the disease burden associated with socioeconomic disadvantage.
ISBN 978 1 74024 648 4; Cat. no. PHE 82; Internet only
Full publication
Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material (216K PDF)
- Half title page and verso
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Contents
- Sections
- Executive summary (216K PDF)
- Introduction
- Key findings
- Total burden of disease and injury
- Health risks
- Differentials in burden across Australia
- Trends - past, present and future
- Key implications
- 1 Introduction (160K PDF)
- Purpose
- Background
- Summary measures of population health
- Disability - Adjusted Life Years
- Burden of disease analysis in Australia
- Burden in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Structure of report
- 2 Methodological developments (378K PDF)
- Social value choices
- Causal attribution
- Categorising deaths
- Redistributing non-specific causes of death
- Alternative categories
- Comorbidity and health
- Risks to health
- Explicit 'counterfactuals'
- Joint risk attribution
- Past, present and future burden
- Mortality trends and projections
- Incidence and case-fatality
- Non-fatal conditions
- Differentials in burden
- Categorising geographic areas
- Estimating burden for subpopulations
- Subpopulation comparisons in this report
- 3 Burden of disease and injury in Australia (905K PDF)
- Disability-adjusted life years
- Years of life lost
- Years lost due to disability
- Incident YLD
- Prevelant YLD
- Age and sex patterns
- Children aged 0 - 14 years
- Older children and adults aged 15 - 44 years
- Adults aged 45 - 64 years
- Adults aged 65 - 74 years
- Older people aged 75 years and over
- Specific disease and injury categories
- Cancers
- Cardiovascular disease
- Mental disorders
- Neurological and sense disorders
- Chronic respiratory diseases
- Injuries
- Diabetes
- Musculoskeletal diseases
- Alternative categories for selected conditions
- 4 Risks to health in Australia (817K PDF)
- Overview
- Combined effect of 14 selected risks to health
- Individual contribution of 14 selected risks to health
- Tobacco
- High blood pressure
- High body mass
- Physical inactivity
- High blood cholesterol
- Alcohol
- Low fruit and vegetable consumption
- Illicit drugs
- Occupational exposures and hazards
- Intimate partner violence
- Child sexual abuse
- Urban air pollution
- Unsafe sex
- Osteoporosis
- 5 Differentials in burden of disease and injury across Australia (297K PDF)
- Overview
- Health-adjusted life expectancy
- State and territory differentials
- Differentials by socioeconomic status
- Differentials by remoteness
- 6 Past, present and future burden of disease and injury in Australia (382K PDF)
- Overview
- Health-adjusted life expectancy
- Burden
- 7 Discussion and conclusions (150K PDF)
- Potential applications
- Policy implications
- Precision of estimates
- Fatal burden
- Non-fatal burden
- Access to data
- Future directions
- End matter
Recommended citation
Begg S, Vos T, Barker B, Stevenson C, Stanley L & Lopez A 2007. The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003. Cat. no. PHE 82. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 12 June 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467990>.