Australian Centre for Monitoring Population Health

In 2017, nearly 79,000 people living with dementia and 630,000 people without dementia aged 65 or older had one or more hospitalisations.

This report focuses on people’s first hospitalisation in 2017 and compares transitions to residential aged care or mortality in the 7-days, 3-months and 12-months after discharge for people living with dementia and people without dementia.

For people living with dementia, the report also explores the characteristics that are associated with longer lengths of stay in hospital and transitions to residential aged care within 7-days of discharge. The use of key healthcare services in the 12-months after discharge are also summarised.

This report used the National Integrated Health Services Information (NIHSI) analysis asset, which contains de-identified administrative health (hospitals, Medicare claims and prescriptions), residential aged care, and deaths data from 2010–11 to 2018–19 (NIHSI 2018–19).

48% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in the BreastScreen Australia in 2020–2021, with around 1.7 million screening.

Breast cancer mortality has decreased since BreastScreen Australia began, from 74 deaths per 100,000 women aged 50–74 in 1991, to 38 deaths per 100,000 women in 2021.
 

This National Dementia Data Improvement Plan 2023–2033 (the ‘plan’) outlines activities to improve national dementia data over the next 10 years to monitor dementia and provide an evidence base for effective policy development, service provision and planning.

Avoidable fatal burden is the burden due to deaths that are considered potentially avoidable given timely and effective health care. In 2018, almost two-thirds (64%) of the fatal burden among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people was classified as avoidable.

This report presents estimates of avoidable fatal burden among First Nations people at the national and Indigenous Region level.

This report demonstrates the utility of the newly established cross-jurisdictional COVID-19 Register. It explores potential analyses which could be conducted on the data using a subset of linked cases. This includes exploring demographic patterns, health outcomes following COVID‑19 and health system use before and after a COVID‑19 diagnosis. It is a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.

This report provides cancer statistics and data visualisations to inform understandings of cancer in Australia and how rates have been changing over time. The report includes statistics on cancer prevalence, survival, incidence, mortality and risk for many different cancers.

For the first time, the National Integrated Health Services Information Analysis Asset (NIHSI AA) is used to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among health service users aged 35 and over. In this report, people with COPD are identified through emergency department and hospital diagnoses as well as COPD-specific prescription dispensing. People with diagnosed COPD accessing these health services are an important group for population monitoring to inform future health service planning.

Cancer screening programs aim to reduce illness and death from selected cancers. This report presents the latest information on participation in Australia’s national bowel cancer, breast cancer and cervical screening programs. Quarterly national activity data summarising bowel and cervical screening tests and breast screening mammograms are disaggregated by state and territory. Screening participation rates are presented for Australia, states and territories, Primary Health Network areas and smaller local geographies.

Updates are on hold until further notice.

On average, Australians are living longer than ever before. Life expectancy has been steadily increasing, and this is matched by increases in the proportion of deaths that occur at older ages and in the median age at death. The result is an ageing population coupled with substantial growth in the population of centenarians (people aged 100 years or more). However, the oldest age at death has shown minimal increases over time. In Australia the oldest living person is believed to have died at age 114.

This report presents results using the Enhanced Indigenous Mortality Data Collection to estimate the levels, age‑sex patterns and trends in Indigenous and non-Indigenous mortality and life expectancy, as well as the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous mortality and life expectancy, over the period 2011–2013 to 2016–2018. The report also presents estimates of the relative contribution of different age groups and causes of death to the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. There were marginal gains in life expectancy for Indigenous males and females during the reference period.