Australia's health 2026 is the AIHW's 20th biennial report on the health of Australians. The report provides a point in time summary of the state of health in Australia and is supported by a collection of 65 web pages on a broad range of health topics.
The Australia’s health 2026 report presents the latest key findings and a selection of short topic-based narratives, offering insights into contemporary health and wellbeing issues.
Australia’s health 2026 is the 20th edition of the AIHW’s flagship health report, having been first released in 1988. Australia’s health is a trusted source of authoritative and accessible health-related information for decision makers, policy advisers, service providers, researchers, and the public.
The Australia’s health 2026 product suite comprises 2 products:
The AIHW’s flagship reports, Australia’s health and Australia’s welfare, are highly regarded sources of authoritative and accessible information.
High quality information in many areas of health enables us to better understand and improve health, heath behaviours, health care and outcomes and is useful for policy formulation, implementation and service delivery, and evaluation.
The AIHW manages a number of national health information assets, and works with state and territory governments, the ABS, other independent bodies and the non-government sector, to ensure the data included in Australia’s health are comprehensive, accurate and informative. Despite recent improvements and enhancements, gaps exist where there are no national data currently available or where data collected are not comprehensive. See Improving Australia’s health data and Australia’s health 2026 report - Focus area 6: From silos to systems: strengthening Australia’s health data.
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