AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2022) Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 June 2026, doi:10.25816/xd60-4366.
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This report describes the impact of 219 diseases and injuries among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in terms of living with illness (non-fatal burden) and premature death (fatal burden). It finds that:
Indigenous Australians lost almost 240,000 years of healthy life due to illness and injury in 2018
The rate of burden in Indigenous Australians decreased by 15% between 2003 and 2018
49% of the burden in Indigenous Australians in 2018 was due to potentially modifiable risk factors
Coronary heart disease was the leading individual disease contributing to burden in Indigenous Australians in 2018
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