Background: Little is known of the periodontal status of the New Zealand (NZ) adult population, despite the availability of data from three national oral health surveys undertaken in 1976, 1988 and 2009. Although the first two surveys provided an epidemiological overview of the NZ population's oral health, they did not provide precise estimates because of...

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...

This is the first national Australian longitudinal population-based study to examine the prevalence and incidence of diabetes and its complications, as well as high blood pressure, heart disease and kidney disease. Executive summary Diabetes mellitus has become one of the most common non-communicable diseases in the world. It results in substantial morbidity and mortality, primarily...

Summary This report presents information on expenditure for diabetes in Australia in 2008-09, as well as information on how this expenditure has changed in the last decade and how it is expected to grow in the future. Expenditure is presented by sex, age and diabetes type for 2000-01 to 2008-09. The report also looks at...

This report card provides information against Essential Indicators from the HfL Program for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) that have participated in the program since 2007 and the 2010-11 OSR data for ACCHS. In addition, background information on the Indigenous population in general are provided from the 2011 Census preliminary estimates and various AIHW...