Rural, regional and remote health: mortality trends 1992-2003

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Release Date: 29 Mar 2006

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2006) Rural, regional and remote health: mortality trends 1992-2003, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 21 March 2023.

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This report compares changes in mortality in Australia's major cities, regional and remote areas in the period 1992-2003. Trends for Australia's broad geographic regions are compared for a range of specific causes of death including coronary heart disease, lung cancer, cervical cancer, asthma, suicide, motor vehicle traffic accidents, diabetes and many others.

ISSN: 1448 9775
ISBN: 978 1 74024 551 7
Cat. no: PHE 71
Pages: 106

Preliminary material (100KB PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- Lists of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
Introduction (421KB PDF)
- Background
- Statistical methods
- Reporting for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people
- Issues pertaining to cause of death coding
- Geographic classification
- Notes on data presentation
Summary
- Overview
- Detailed specific causes summary
Overall mortality trends
- Interpretation of overall mortality trends
- Contribution of major cause groups to the overall decline in mortality
Neoplasms (254KB PDF)
- All neoplasms
- Lung cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Melanoma
- 'Other' neoplasms
Circulatory diseases
- All circulatory diseases
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Coronary heart disease
- 'Other' circulatory diseases
Respiratory diseases
- All respiratory diseases
- Pneumonia and influenza
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- 'Other' respiratory diseases
Injury and poisoning (178KB PDF)
- All injury and poisoning
- Suicide
- Interpersonal violence
- Motor vehicle traffic accidents
- 'Other' land transport accidents
- 'Other' injuries and poisoning
Other causes
- All other causes
- Diabetes
- Renal failure
- All other causes not elsewhere described
End matter (160KB PDF)
- Appendix
  - Tables of SMRs by year, area and cause
- Glossary
- References

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