Health system: Effectiveness

The proportion of 1, 2 and 5 year olds who have been assessed as fully immunised according to information recorded in the Australian Immunisation Register.

To explore this topic in more detail see Immunisation

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Available data: National - State & Territory - Primary Health Network (select option from Explore data above)

The proportion of females who gave birth, where an antenatal visit was reported in the first trimester, as a proportion of all females who gave birth, and by Indigenous status.

To explore this topic in more detail see Mothers & babies

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Available data: National - State & Territory - Primary Health Network (select option from Explore data above)

Participation rates for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, Breastscreen Australia and the National Cervical Screening Program.

• National Bowel Cancer Screening – The proportion of adults (aged 50–74) invited to screen through the national program in a 24-month period, who returned a completed screening test within the defined 24-month period or the following 6 months.
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• BreastScreen Australia – The proportion of women aged 50–74 who are screened through the national program in a 24-month period.
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• National Cervical Screening – The number of people aged 25–74 screened in a 5-year period as a percentage of females in the population. From 1 December 2017, the National Cervical Screening Program changed to 5-yearly cervical screening, for those aged 25–74. Participation in the 5-year program cannot be properly reported until there are 5 years of data available. In the interim, preliminary estimates have been calculated, including a 4-year estimate of participation for 2018–2021.
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To explore this topic in more detail see Cancer screening. The Cancer screening and COVID-19 in Australia report details how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted cancer screening. See the Analysis of cancer outcomes and screening behaviour for national cancer screening programs in Australia report to read about the Australian-first linkage project on cancer screening and cancer outcomes.​

Available data: National - State & Territory - Primary Health Network (available in the downloadable data table only) (select option from Explore data above). To explore further the data by small geographical areas (Primary Health Network, Statistical Area Level 3 and Level 2), please refer to the Cancer screening program: quarterly data.

Admission to hospital for a condition where the hospitalisation could have potentially been prevented through the provision of appropriate individualised preventative health interventions and early disease management usually delivered in primary care and community-based care settings (including by general practitioners, medical specialists, dentists, nurses and allied health professionals).

To explore this topic in more detail see Hospitals

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Available data: National - State & Territory (select option from Explore data above)

The proportion of people diagnosed with cancer who survived for at least 5 years after diagnosis, relative to people of the same age and sex in the general population.

To explore this topic in more detail see Cancer

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Available data: National

The annual number of deaths (for people aged under 75) from conditions that are potentially preventable through individualised care and/or treatable through existing primary or hospital care.

To explore this topic in more detail see Life expectancy & deaths

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Available data: National - State & Territory - Primary Health Network (select option from Explore data above)