Australia's health 2010: in brief

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Publication table of contents

• Australia's health 2010: in brief
  • Introduction (575KB PDF) 
  • The story
  • We're a healthy nation (1.1MB PDF)
    • Outliving most of the world
    • Longer and longer lives
    • Australia compares well
    • Heart, stroke deaths down
    • Cancer deaths down too
    • Less emphysema with less smoking
    • Breathing easier
    • Infectious disease deaths plummeted
    • Fatal injuries still falling
    • Traffic deaths down
  • But not healthy in every way (374KB PDF)
    • Ranking the burdens
    • Diabetes on the march
    • Is Type 1 diabetes increasing?
    • Is severe kidney disease increasing?
    • Heavier and heavier
    • Dementia set to grow
    • Burden on young minds
    • Chlamydia rates rising
  • And certainly not everyone is healthy (862KB PDF)
    • Death by disadvantage?
    • High Indigenous death rates
    • Indigenous diabetes prominent
    • Indigenous injuries high
    • High Indigenous distress
    • Disadvantage takes its toll
    • Disadvantage is risky
  • But there's much scope to do better (660KB PDF)
    • Risky effects
    • Tobacco, marijuana use down
    • But alcohol flat
    • Eating our fruit and vegies?
  • We're spending more and doing more (1.0MB PDF)
    • An average spender
    • Where the dollars go
    • More for prevention?
    • More for Indigenous health?
    • Hospitals increasingly busy
    • Restoring the flow
    • Joint replacements up
    • Special Indigenous services grow
    • GPs preventing more?
  • Some successes and changes are apparent (634KB PDF)
    • Surviving heart attacks better
    • Cancer survival improving
    • Cancer survival: examples
    • Realising our potential?
  • But important challenges remain (627KB PDF)
    • Not preventing hospitalisations?
    • Waiting longer for surgery
    • A few more challenges

Notes and corrections

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1. [30 June 2010] An error in the original publication was noted on page 39, Eating our fruit and vegies. The bar graph key for recommended serves of vegetables has been corrected to indicate vegetable consumption with and without potatoes.
• Previous version: Australia's health 2010: in brief (5.6MB PDF)
2. [13 July 2010] An error in the original publication was noted on page 21, Is severe kidney disease increasing?. The bar graph title has been corrected to indicate the incidence of end-stage kidney disease.
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