Multiple causes of death in Australia: an analysis of all natural and selected chronic disease causes of death 1997-2007

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Release Date: 23 Aug 2012

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012) Multiple causes of death in Australia: an analysis of all natural and selected chronic disease causes of death 1997-2007, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 21 March 2023.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2012). Multiple causes of death in Australia: an analysis of all natural and selected chronic disease causes of death 1997-2007. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Multiple causes of death in Australia: an analysis of all natural and selected chronic disease causes of death 1997-2007. AIHW, 2012.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Multiple causes of death in Australia: an analysis of all natural and selected chronic disease causes of death 1997-2007. Canberra: AIHW; 2012.

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Multiple causes of death data are useful for describing the role of all diseases involved in deaths. This is the first comprehensive application of multiple causes of death statistics to natural causes of death and specific chronic diseases of public health importance in Australia.

ISBN: 978-1-74249-330-5
Cat. no: AUS 159
Pages: 25

Findings from this report:

Only 1 in 5 deaths were reported as being caused by a single disease in 2007
1,442,303 deaths in Australia between 1997 to 2007
21% of deaths were reported as being caused by five or more diseases in 2007
3.1 diseases, on average, contributed to each death due to natural causes

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
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Summary
1 Introduction
- What are multiple causes of death?
- What are the benefits of using multiple causes of death data?
- Objectives of this bulletin
- Scope of this bulletin
2 Methods
- Data sources
- Classification of causes of death
- Chronic disease causes of death
- Analytical techniques
3 Results
- Variation in multiple causes of death by age at death
- Variation in multiple causes of death by sociodemographic characteristics
- Variation in multiple causes of death by underlying cause
- Trends in multiple causes of death for chronic diseases
- Patterns of contributory causes of death
- Age at death for selected chronic diseases
4 Discussion
5 Appendix
- ICD-10 chapter level groupings of causes of death
- Deaths from selected chronic diseases
References
List of tables
List of figures
List of boxes
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