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Australian Burden of Disease Study 2018 – Key findings

Risk factors contributing the most burden were tobacco use and overweight (including obesity) 38% of disease burden could have been avoided or reduced, being due to the modifiable risk factors included in the Study Coronary heart disease, back pain, dementia, COPD, and lung cancer were the top 5 diseases causing burden in 2018 Remote and Very remote areas combined experienced a burden rate that was 1.4 times as high as that in Major cities Cancers were the group of diseases causing the most burden in 2018 13% reduction in total burden rates between 2003 and 2018 5 million years of healthy life were lost in 2018 Australians suffered more burden from living with illness (52% of total burden) than from premature death (48%)

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Mothers are older, smoking less and having healthy babies

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The number of Australian women giving birth after the age of 34 is continuing to increase. In 2019, there were more than 76,000 babies born to mothers aged 35 or over, compared to almost 69,000 in 2009 and 42,000 births in 1999.

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The AIHW is monitoring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and welfare of Australians.

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