This is the first comprehensive national report on prostate cancer in Australia, presenting an overview of the condition and analysis of key summary measures including incidence, mortality and survival. Summary The effect of prostate cancer is wide reaching-affecting males diagnosed with the condition, their families and communities. Prostate cancer in Australia is the first comprehensive...

This report outlines work towards the inclusion of Indigenous status on pathology request forms as a way to improve Indigenous identification in national cancer, communicable disease and cervical screening registries. Summary Most pathology request forms do not include an Indigenous status identifier. This means that Indigenous data cannot flow from medical practitioners to pathology laboratories...

Summary This report explores the association between diabetes and disability-comprising of impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions-and its comorbidities. Using data from the 2009 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Survey of Disability Ageing and Carers (SDAC), it presents estimates of the number of people with diabetes and a disability. In 2009, an estimated 827,020 people...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common and serious problem in Australia and its management can be resource intensive. Those with CKD's most severe form, end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), usually require kidney replacement therapy (KRT) to survive, either in the form of dialysis or kidney transplantation. As with other chronic conditions, the prevalence and incidence...

This report shows that an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in Australia is expected to generate very large adverse economic impacts to both producers and other industries inside and beyond the outbreak area; with financial losses and eradication activities also having social impacts. Abstract Australia is free of the highly contagious foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD)...