Summary
This report is the second in a series of reports on the health status of Australians who live in regional and remote areas. The principal aim of the report is to answer the question of mortality rates increase with remoteness? A description of mortality is simply one measure of health. Other important aspects of health include how well people feel, levels of fitness, the prevalence of risk factors such as smoking, measures of disability, disease rates, visits to medical practitioners, rates of surgical intervention and so on. These have not been described in this report but have been addressed, at least in part, in the development of a framework for rural health information by the Institute (AIHW 2003d) under the guidance of the Rural Health Information Advisory Committee (RHIAC).
Preliminary material (187K PDF): Lists of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Symbols used in the tables and figures
- Background
- Key points
Introduction (159K PDF)
- Characteristics of rural and remote populations
Technical notes (313K PDF)
- Indigenous data quality issues
- Population data and calculation of death rates
- Effect of Indigenous data quality on reporting non-Indigenous deaths in this report
- Statistical methods
- Geographic classification
- Cause of deaths
- Notes on data presentation
All cause mortality (344K PDF)
- Overview
- Trends in mortality
- Death rates
- Variation within areas
- Variation by age group
- 'Excess' deaths
- Life expectancy
- Mortality due to specific causes
Circulatory disease (296K PDF)
- Overview -- circulatory diseases
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Stroke
- Rheumatic heart disease
- 'Other' diseases of the circulatory system
Neoplasms (347K PDF)
- Overview -- neoplasms
- Lung cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Melanoma
- 'Other' neoplasms
Respiratory disease (330K PDF)
- Overview -- respiratory diseases
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pneumonia
- Asthma
- Influenza
- 'Other' respiratory diseases
Injury (309K PDF)
- Overview -- injury
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Suicide
- Interpersonal violence
- Accidental shooting
- 'Other' injury
'Other' diseases (229K PDF)
- Overall mortality due to 'all other causes'
- Diabetes
- Specified renal disease
- All other causes of death not elsewhere described
Appendixes
Standardised mortality ratios (210K PDF)
Age-specific death rates (147K PDF)
ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes (111K PDF)
End matter: References (94K PDF)