OECD health-care quality indicators for Australia 2015
This report summarises information Australia provided to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Health at a glance...
Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2014–15
Most young people who have a supervised sentence serve only 1 sentence and do not return. For those born from 1990–91 to 1996–97, around...
National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2016
This report presents statistics on the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP). This monitoring report is the first to measure...
National Core Maternity Indicators stage 3 and 4 results from 2010–2013
National Core Maternity Indicators (NCMIs) are designed to assist in improving the quality of maternity services in Australia by...
Musculoskeletal conditions as underlying and associated causes of death 2013
Musculoskeletal conditions are responsible for a substantial proportion of the non-fatal burden of disease in Australia. This bulletin...
Skin cancer in Australia
Skin cancer (melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers) accounts for the largest number of cancers diagnosed in Australia each year. This...
Use of medicines by older people with type 2 diabetes
This report describes dispensing patterns of glucose lowering medicines and medicines for other conditions associated with diabetes in a...
Poisoning in children and young people 2012–13
This report provides information about children and young people aged 0–24 who were hospitalised as a result of poisoning in Australia....
Peripartum hysterectomy in Australia: a working paper using the National Hospital Morbidity Database
Peripartum hysterectomy, a life-saving procedure to stop haemorrhage after giving birth, can have considerable consequences for mothers...
Monitoring the health impacts of mandatory folic acid and iodine fortification 2016
This report assesses the health effects of mandatory folic acid and iodine fortification, introduced to help reduce the prevalence of...
