Summary: Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease-Australian facts: risk factors is the fourth in a series of national reports by the National Centre for Monitoring Vascular Diseases at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It describes health risk factors and their associations with cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) using...

Overview: The National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD) provides national data standards for the health sector. This version (Version 16.2) reflects changes to data standards between July 2013 and June 2014. Eight national minimum data sets, 12 data set specifications, 16 data element clusters, 174 data elements, 13 classification schemes and 13 glossary items have been...

Presents an overview of admitted patient activity in Australia’s public and private hospitals. Summary How much admitted patient care was provided? In 2013-14, there were more than 9.7 million separations from hospitals-5.7 million in public hospitals and 4.0 million in private hospitals. Between 2009-10 and 2013-14, the number of separations increased by 3.3% on average...

This bulletin examines people’s use of aged care services in the 8 years before death, using the cohort of 116,481 people who died in 2010–11 aged at least 65. Summary In 2010-11, 116,481 people died in Australia aged at least 65. This report examines these people's use of aged care services in the 8 years...

During 2012-13, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services saw just over 250,000 Indigenous clients. This report shows increases in the proportion of clients receiving appropriate processes of care for ten of the 16 primary health care indicators. Summary This report on Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) presents information sourced from a variety of data sets...