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Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2011—summary report
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Topic: Burden of disease
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2016) Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2011—summary report, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 19 April 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2016). Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2011—summary report. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
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 2011—summary report. AIHW, 2016.
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 2011—summary report. Canberra: AIHW; 2016.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016, Australian Burden of Disease Study: impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2011—summary report, AIHW, Canberra.
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This summary report presents key findings from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s report Australian Burden of Disease Study: Impact and causes of illness and death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2011. It provides estimates of the burden due to different diseases and injuries for Indigenous Australians, estimates of the gap in burden between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and the contribution of various risk factors to this burden.
- ISSN: 2204-4108 (PDF) 2006-4508 (Print)
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-998-7
- Cat. no: BOD 8
- Pages: 24
Findings from this report:
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Indigenous Australians experienced burden 2.3 times the rate of non-Indigenous Australians
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Indigenous Australians experience a burden of disease that is 2.3 times the rate of non-Indigenous Australians
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Chronic diseases and injuries cause most of the burden and are the main causes of the gap
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Mental & substance use disorders, such as anxiety, depression and alcohol use disorders, caused 19% of the burden