This report measures sport related injury, using two types of measurements: one based on rates of injury within the total population and the other on rates of injury within the population that reported participation in sports activities. Summary During 2011-12, an estimated 36,000 people aged 15 and over were hospitalised as the result of an...

Provides information on antenatal care, live births, low birthweight babies, hospitalisations (all and selected causes), disability, mortality, child protection, juvenile justice, alcohol and other drug use and aged care for 29 remote Indigenous communities. Summary The National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery (NPA RSD) was one aspect of a broader government agenda to reduce...

Summary: This report is the first in a series by the National Centre for Monitoring Vascular Diseases at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It describes deaths in the Australian population that result from 3 chronic diseases, acting alone or together: cardiovascular disease (CVD) (including coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke), diabetes and chronic...

This report presents the current state of the Australian Cancer Database (ACD) and identifies and presents approaches for the continued development and enhancement of the database. Summary High quality data are essential national assets for the effective monitoring of cancer incidence, prevalence, survival and mortality in Australia. These data are vital to governments, clinicians and...

Almost 7.2 million emergency department presentations were reported by public hospital emergency departments in Australia during 2013-14. Summary How many emergency department presentations were there? Almost 7.2 million emergency department presentations were reported by public hospital emergency departments in 2013-14, corresponding to over 19,700 presentations each day. Emergency department presentations increased by 7.2% between 2012-13...