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released: 18 Dec 2007 author: AIHW media release

Death rates are a useful indicator of the underlying health status of a population. In general, people living in regional and remote Australia have higher death rates than those living in major cities. This report, the eighth in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's rural health series, describes the patterns of death in regional and remote areas and quantifies the difference in death rates amongst people living in major cities and those living outside them.

ISSN 1448 9775; ISBN 978 1 74024 743 6; Cat. no. PHE 95; 362pp.; Out of print

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AIHW 2007. Rural, regional and remote health: a study on mortality (2nd edition). Rural health series no. 8. Cat. no. PHE 95. Canberra: AIHW.