Australian Centre for Monitoring Population Health

48% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in the BreastScreen Australia in 2020–2021, with around 1.7 million screening.

Breast cancer mortality has decreased since BreastScreen Australia began, from 74 deaths per 100,000 women aged 50–74 in 1991, to 38 deaths per 100,000 women in 2021.
 

This National Dementia Data Improvement Plan 2023–2033 (the ‘plan’) outlines activities to improve national dementia data over the next 10 years to monitor dementia and provide an evidence base for effective policy development, service provision and planning.

Avoidable fatal burden is the burden due to deaths that are considered potentially avoidable given timely and effective health care. In 2018, almost two-thirds (64%) of the fatal burden among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people was classified as avoidable.

This report presents estimates of avoidable fatal burden among First Nations people at the national and Indigenous Region level.

This report demonstrates the utility of the newly established cross-jurisdictional COVID-19 Register. It explores potential analyses which could be conducted on the data using a subset of linked cases. This includes exploring demographic patterns, health outcomes following COVID‑19 and health system use before and after a COVID‑19 diagnosis. It is a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.

This report provides cancer statistics and data visualisations to inform understandings of cancer in Australia and how rates have been changing over time. The report includes statistics on cancer prevalence, survival, incidence, mortality and risk for many different cancers.

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For the first time, the National Integrated Health Services Information Analysis Asset (NIHSI AA) is used to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among health service users aged 35 and over. In this report, people with COPD are identified through emergency department and hospital diagnoses as well as COPD-specific prescription dispensing. People with diagnosed COPD accessing these health services are an important group for population monitoring to inform future health service planning.

Cancer screening programs aim to reduce illness and death from selected cancers. This report presents the latest information on participation in Australia’s national bowel cancer, breast cancer and cervical screening programs. Quarterly national activity data summarising bowel and cervical screening tests and breast screening mammograms are disaggregated by state and territory. Screening participation rates are presented for Australia, states and territories, Primary Health Network areas and smaller local geographies.

Updates are on hold until further notice.

Deaths data are a vital measure of a population’s health and provide information on patterns of diseases that cause death, by population groups and over time. Examining death patterns can help explain differences and changes in health status, evaluate health strategies, and guide planning and policy-making.

This web report presents updated data to 2021 on deaths, causes of death and life expectancy in Australia.

GRIM books are Excel workbooks that contain national level, historical and recent mortality data for specific causes of death. The tables present age- and sex-specific counts and rates by cause of death, along with other summary measures.

GRIM books are available for all causes of death combined and 55 other cause of death groupings.