Rural, regional and remote health: mortality trends 1992-2003

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Rural health series no. 7

This report compares changes in mortality in Australia's major cities, regional and remote areas in the period 1992-2003. Trends for Australia's broad geographic regions are compared for a range of specific causes of death including coronary heart disease, lung cancer, cervical cancer, asthma, suicide, motor vehicle traffic accidents, diabetes and many others.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 29 March 2006; ISSN 1448 9775; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 551 7; AIHW cat. no. PHE 71; 106pp.; $24.00

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Preliminary material (100K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- Lists of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
Introduction (421K PDF)
- Background
- Statistical methods
- Reporting for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people
- Issues pertaining to cause of death coding
- Geographic classification
- Notes on data presentation
Summary
- Overview
- Detailed specific causes summary
Overall mortality trends
- Interpretation of overall mortality trends
- Contribution of major cause groups to the overall decline in mortality
Neoplasms (254K PDF)
- All neoplasms
- Lung cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Melanoma
- 'Other' neoplasms
Circulatory diseases
- All circulatory diseases
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Coronary heart disease
- 'Other' circulatory diseases
Respiratory diseases
- All respiratory diseases
- Pneumonia and influenza
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- 'Other' respiratory diseases
Injury and poisoning (178K PDF)
- All injury and poisoning
- Suicide
- Interpersonal violence
- Motor vehicle traffic accidents
- 'Other' land transport accidents
- 'Other' injuries and poisoning
Other causes
- All other causes
- Diabetes
- Renal failure
- All other causes not elsewhere described
End matter (160K PDF)
- Appendix
  - Tables of SMRs by year, area and cause
- Glossary
- References

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