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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019. Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2015—Summary. Cat. no. BOD 21. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2015—Summary. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2015—Summary. AIHW, 2019.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2015—Summary. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2015—Summary, AIHW, Canberra.
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This summary report presents key findings from the Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2015. It provides estimates of the burden due to 216 diseases and injuries in Australia and the contribution of various modifiable risk factors to this burden. A new analysis of the change in burden of disease between 2003 and 2015 is also presented.
This is a companion report to Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2015. There are also two interactive data sets to explore: disease burden and risk factor burden.
Coronary heart disease, back pain, COPD, dementia and lung cancer were the top 5 diseases causing burden in 2015
The lowest socioeconomic group had a burden rate that was 1.5 times as high as that in the highest socioeconomic group
Risk factors contributing the most burden were tobacco use, overweight & obesity, and dietary risks
Australians suffered more burden from living with illness (50.4% of total burden) than from premature death (49.6%)
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