Australian Centre for Monitoring Population Health

Understanding what Australians die from is complex and can vary depending on how we ask the question. We may want to know which health conditions ultimately end a person’s life, the conditions responsible for initiating the death, what other conditions contributed to the death, or the risk factors that led to the disease or injury that caused the death. This report answers these questions and highlights the most common causes involved in the deaths of Australians.

Climate change and environmental health indicators: reporting framework was developed to meet identified gaps in both the National Preventive Health Strategy and the National Health and Climate Strategy. This report describes a framework and 30 indicators for measuring and monitoring how climate change and the environment (both natural and built) impact on the Australian population’s health. This report details the methods used in developing the framework, indicator specifications and data gaps.

Identifying cases of disease in large databases is important for surveillance, research, quality improvement and clinical care. General practice data are a rich information source which contains a range of information to enable identification of whether a person has a particular condition or not. This technical report describes approaches for diabetes case definitions using markers of diabetes status including diabetes specific prescriptions, pathology tests and Medicare Benefits Schedule service items recorded in general practice data.

This web report describes how social determinants of health influence associations between cultural and linguistic diversity and long-term health conditions reported by people through the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2021 Census of Population and Housing.

Around 7 million people live in rural and remote areas, which encompass many diverse locations and communities. These Australians face unique challenges due to their geographic location and often have poorer health outcomes than people living in metropolitan areas.

The Dementia Awareness Survey is the largest nationally representative community survey of its kind in Australia. It collects information on how much people know about dementia and their attitudes towards dementia and people living with dementia. The survey results will help inform priorities and areas for dementia awareness initiatives and prevention activities that can reduce the risk or delay the development of dementia. 

Childhood is an important time for healthy development, learning, and establishing the foundations for future wellbeing. This article focuses on key health issues that children face.

Youth is a key transition period in a person’s life. The foundations for future health and wellbeing are also laid down at this time.

This article focuses on key health issues that adolescents and young adults face.

Dementia is a significant and growing health and aged care issue in Australia that has a substantial impact on the health and quality of life of people with the condition, as well as for their family and friends. This online report provides a comprehensive picture of dementia in Australia, including the latest statistics on dementia prevalence, burden of disease, deaths, expenditure, as well as the use of health and aged care services among people with dementia and information on carers of people with dementia.

Dementia in Australia has been published as a web report since 2021. This report is updated bi-annually to include the latest data from a range of sources. For more information, see Data sources.

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) includes heart attacks and unstable angina. People who survive an ACS event are at higher risk of having another cardiovascular event in the future. This report uses linked health data to map what happened next for 35,800 people who survived an ACS hospitalisation and describes the health outcomes they experienced. Measures of interventional procedures and medication are used to describe a person’s 'treatment pathway'.