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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08-Major causes of death, 2014

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Definition

Age-standardised mortality rate by major cause of death, and rate ratios for Indigenous people and people living in remote or low socioeconomic areas.

Indicator Summary

Numerator
Number of deaths
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Denominator
Total population
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Computation

For tables disaggregated by Indigenous status:

Selected International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) chapters for underlying causes of death plus major cause of Kidney diseases:

  • Circulatory diseases (I00-I99)
  • Neoplasms (cancer) (C00-D48)
  • External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98)
  • Endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders (E00-E90)
  • Respiratory diseases (J00-J99)
  • Digestive diseases (K00-K93)
  • Kidney diseases (N00-N29)
  • Conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96)
  • Infectious …
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Disaggregation

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 (resupplied for updated Estimated Resident Population (ERP)), 2012 — State and territory (total deaths - all causes only).

2007, 2008 (resupplied for updated ERP), 2009, 2010 (updated for revision to ABS cause of death data and updated ERP), 2011 — State and territory, by ICD-10 chapter for underlying cause of death (and total).

2007-2011 — State and territory, by major cause of death by Indigenous status.

2011 — Nationally, by remoteness (total deaths - all …

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Calculation rules

Computation Rule
Description

For tables disaggregated by Indigenous status:

Selected International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) chapters for underlying causes of death plus major cause of Kidney diseases:

  • Circulatory diseases (I00-I99)
  • Neoplasms (cancer) (C00-D48)
  • External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98)
  • Endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders (E00-E90)
  • Respiratory diseases (J00-J99)
  • Digestive diseases (K00-K93)
  • Kidney diseases (N00-N29)
  • Conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96)
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • Nervous system diseases (G00-G99)
  • Other causes
  • All causes

For disaggregations by all persons:

Each International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) chapter for underlying cause of death:

  • Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • Neoplasms (cancer) (C00-D48)
  • Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)
  • Endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders (E00-E90)
  • Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99)
  • Nervous system diseases (G00-G99)
  • Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59)
  • Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95)
  • Circulatory diseases (I00-I99)
  • Respiratory diseases (J00-J99)
  • Digestive diseases (K00-K93)
  • Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99)
  • Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)
  • Kidney diseases (N00-N29)
  • Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O99)
  • Conditions originating in ther perinatal period (P00-P96)
  • Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
  • External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98)
  • All cases

Rates are directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.

Variability bands are to be calculated for single-year rates using the method below.

Presented per 100,000 population.

Disaggregation

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 (resupplied for updated Estimated Resident Population (ERP)), 2012 — State and territory (total deaths - all causes only).

2007, 2008 (resupplied for updated ERP), 2009, 2010 (updated for revision to ABS cause of death data and updated ERP), 2011 — State and territory, by ICD-10 chapter for underlying cause of death (and total).

2007-2011 — State and territory, by major cause of death by Indigenous status.

2011 — Nationally, by remoteness (total deaths - all causes only).

Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. Disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable—NSW, Qld, SA, WA and NT.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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