Overview

Men and women have distinct health and welfare needs and concerns related to their gender and biological sex. This is illustrated by different rates of injury, illness and mortality; different attitudes towards health and other risks; the way each group uses health services; and differences in their health outcomes and wellbeing.

More reports and statistics on women can be found under Mothers & babies.

Latest findings

2 in 3 (67%) adults were overweight or obese in 2017–18—36% were overweight but not obese and 31% were obese 5-year relative survival from prostate cancer improved from 59% to 95% between 1985–1989 and 2010–2014 One in four (25%) children and adolescents aged 2–17 were overweight or obese in 2017–18 Life expectancy at birth for Indigenous males increased by 2.5 years to 71.6 years between 2010–2012 and 2015–2017 Australia had the 8th highest proportion of overweight or obese adults aged 15 and over among 23 60% of men and 66% of women in 2017–18 had a waist circumference that indicated high risk of metabolic complications Males had nearly twice the rate of death from coronary heart disease and lung cancer as females in 2016 In 2017–18, 38% of adults in the lowest socioeconomic areas were obese, compared with 24% in the highest 2 in 5 males (42%) have experienced violence since they turned 15

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