Better Cardiac Care measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: second national report 2016
Publication
Release Date:
Topic: First Nations people
Citation
AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2016) Better Cardiac Care measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: second national report 2016 , AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 14 July 2026.
PDF | 4.6MB
Newer release available
View latest
This is the second national report on the 21 Better Cardiac Care measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with updated data available to report on 11 measures. For some of the measures, a better or similar rate for Indigenous Australians compared with non-Indigenous Australians was apparent, while on other measures, higher rates of ill health and death from cardiac conditions and lower rates of in-hospital treatment services among Indigenous Australians were evident. A number of measures suggested improvements for Indigenous Australians over time; examples include a decline in the death rate due to cardiac conditions and an increase in the proportion who received an MBS health assessment.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-033-3
- Cat. no: IHW 169
- Pages: 86
Findings from this report:
-
Indigenous Australians were 1.6 times as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to die from cardiac conditions
-
The in-hospital death rate for heart attack hospitalisations was similar for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
-
Incidence of acute rheumatic fever is 59 per 100,000 Indigenous Australians and 0.2 per 100,000 other Australians
-
Between 1998 and 2013, the gap in cardiac death rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians narrowed by 47%