Indicators of Australia's health
This section presents the latest data for indicators currently agreed for national reporting in the Australian Health Performance Framework (AHPF).
Indicators are grouped under the AHPF conceptual framework domains: health status, determinants of health, and health system.
For more information, see Chapter 1.4 ‘Indicators of Australia’s health’ and Data tables: Indicators of Australia’s health.
| AHPF domain: health status |
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| Health conditions |
| Incidence of heart attacks |
| Incidence of selected cancers |
| Incidence of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses |
| Incidence of end-stage kidney disease |
| Hospitalisation for injury and poisoning |
| Proportion of babies born with low birthweight |
| Human function |
| Severe or profound core activity limitation |
| Wellbeing |
| Psychological distress |
| Self-assessed health status |
| Deaths |
| Infant/young child mortality rate |
| Life expectancy |
| AHPF domain: determinants of health |
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| Health behaviours |
| Health literacy |
| Proportion of adults who are daily smokers |
| Proportion of adults at risk of long-term harm from alcohol |
| Fruit and vegetable intake |
| Physical inactivity |
| Unsafe sharing of needles |
| Children exposed to tobacco smoke in the home |
| Personal biomedical factors |
| Proportion of people obese and overweight |
| Environmental factors |
| Water quality |
| Socioeconomic factors |
| Proportion of people with low income |
a. Not reported here due to lack of data or agreed methodology.