Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018 – summary report
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018 – summary report, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 29 March 2024. doi:10.25816/vdfe-n141
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022). Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018 – summary report. Canberra: AIHW. doi:10.25816/vdfe-n141
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018 – summary report. AIHW, 2022. doi:10.25816/vdfe-n141
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018 – summary report. Canberra: AIHW; 2022. doi:10.25816/vdfe-n141
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2022, Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018 – summary report, AIHW, Canberra. doi:10.25816/vdfe-n141
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This summary report presents key findings from the Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2018. It provides estimates of the burden due to 219 diseases and injuries in Indigenous Australians, the contribution of modifiable risk factors to this burden, and the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. An analysis of changes between 2003 and 2018 is also presented.
- ISSN: 2204-4108
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-953-4
- DOI: 10.25816/vdfe-n141
- Cat. no: BOD 33
- Pages: 28
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Indigenous Australians lost almost 240,000 years of healthy life due to illness and injury in 2018
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The rate of burden in Indigenous Australians decreased by 15% between 2003 and 2018
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49% of the burden in Indigenous Australians in 2018 was due to potentially modifiable risk factors
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Coronary heart disease was the leading individual disease contributing to burden in Indigenous Australians in 2018