The total burden increased with increasing age, and was highest in those aged 65–84. In children, the burden is evenly shared between fatal burden (due to dying prematurely) and non-fatal burden (due to ill health), whereas in adolescents and young adults, ill health accounts for more burden than dying prematurely. Males experienced more burden than females, but the age distribution of burden is very similar for males and females.Ĭhildren (aged under 15 years) and adolescents and young adults (15–24 years) experienced a similar number of DALY in 2011, although the sources of this burden are quite different. This is equivalent to 4.5 million DALY in total.Īs expected, the overall disease burden increased with age, except for over 85 where it was much lower due to the smaller population (Figure 3.1.1). Overall, in 2011 there were 201 years of healthy life lost due to dying or living with disease or injury for every 1,000 people in Australia.
(The Indigenous component was still being finalised at time of preparation of this feature article.) It also provides a comparison of burden between Australia and other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, using international burden of disease data. This feature article highlights the key results of the ABDS for the Australian population as a whole. The study builds on the AIHW's previous burden of disease studies and disease monitoring work and provides Australian-specific burden of disease estimates for 200 diseases and injuries, grouped into 17 disease groups, and for 29 risk factors, for 20. The Australian Burden of Disease Study (ABDS) recently undertaken by the AIHW provides information on the burden of disease for the whole population, as well as for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population (Box 3.1.1). This enables health policymakers and service planners to be able to recognise and assess the varying impact of morbidity and mortality for different diseases, injuries and risk factors. While the health of the population is monitored using separate measures of morbidity and mortality (as described elsewhere in this publication), it is important for health policy-making and service planning to be able to combine information on both of these measures. 3.1 Burden of disease and injury in Australia Introduction It also looks at vaccine preventable diseases, such as influenza and pertussis (whooping cough), and how they affect different population groups in our community.
Even though the premature mortality rate has fallen dramatically over the past 100 years or so, one-third of deaths in Australia in 2013 were considered premature. This chapter also examines premature mortality-that is, deaths before the age of 75. These risk factors are covered in more detail in 'Chapter 4 Determinants of health'. It includes a feature article on the key results from the Australian Burden of Disease Study recently undertaken by the AIHW.Īccording to these results, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, mental and substance-use disorders, musculoskeletal disorders and injuries account for around two-thirds of the burden in Australia.Ībout 31% of the burden of disease could have been prevented by reducing exposure to modifiable risk factors such as tobacco use, harmful alcohol use, high body mass, physical inactivity and high blood pressure. This chapter profiles the leading causes of ill health in Australia, both physical and mental, and the impact of these illnesses. The effects of chronic disease can be profound, both on an individual's health and wellbeing and on the health care system. In 2014–15, more than 11 million Australians had at least one of eight selected chronic diseases, and one-quarter of the population had two or more of them. The following is my iOS configuration: guard let url = URL(string: Host.Australia has one of the highest life expectancies in the world and the majority of Australians consider themselves to be in good health.īut while death rates continue to decline and the burden of disease in the population has improved (including both fatal and non-fatal impacts), not all Australians are as healthy as they could be.Ĭhronic diseases are the leading cause of ill health and death in Australia. When I play the video to that URL I only see a blank screen and the circular-progress bar moving. I have a iOS AVPlayer and I pass that URL endpoint with the appropriate headers. I have a Restful endpoint that returns a StreamingOutput of a video file.
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