Mortality estimates for years up to 2005 are based on Australian Bureau of Statistics death registration data. Data from 2006 onwards were provided by the Australian Coordinating Registry, Cause of Death Unit Record File; the data for the most 2 recent years are preliminary (SAPHaRI, Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health)
Potentially Avoidable Deaths (PAD) are based on National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths
Only NSW residents are included. Rates were age-adjusted using the Australian population as at 30 June 2001.
Counts of deaths for the latest years of data include an estimate of the number of deaths occurring in that year but registered in the next year. Data on late registrations were unavailable at the time of production.
LL/UL 95%CI = lower and upper limits of the 95% confidence interval for the point estimate. Data for some LHDs may not be included individually due to low numbers. All LHDs include Albury Local Government Area and those LHDs where numbers are low and records where the LHD was missing or not stated.
Potentially Avoidable Deaths (PAD) are based on National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths
Category | ICD-10-AM | Limits |
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Infections | ||
Selected invasive infections | A38–A41, A46, A48.1, G00, G03, J02.0, J13–J16, J18, L03 | |
Viral pneumonia and influenza | J10–J12 | |
HIV/AIDS | B20–B24 | |
Cancer | ||
Colorectal | C18–C21 | |
Skin | C43, C44 | |
Breast | C50 | Female |
Cervix | C53 | |
Prostate | C61 | Male |
Kidney | C64 | |
Thyroid | C73 | |
Hodgkin's disease | C81 | |
Acute lymphoid leukaemia/Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia | C91.0 | 0-44 years |
Diabetes | E10–E14 | |
Diseases of the circulatory system | ||
Rheumatic and other valvular heart disease | I00–I09, I33–I37 | |
Hypertensive heart and renal disease | I10–I13 | |
Ischaemic heart disease | I20–I25 | |
Cerebrovascular diseases | I60–I69 | |
Heart failure | I50, I51.1, I51.2, I51.4, I51.5 | |
Pulmonary embolism | I26 | |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | ||
Renal failure | N17–N19 | |
Diseases of the respiratory system | ||
COPD | J40–J44 | |
Asthma | J45, J46 | |
Diseases of the digestive system | ||
Pepticulcer disease | K25–K27 | |
Maternal & infant causes | ||
Complications of the perinatal period | P00–P96 | |
Complications of pregnancy, labour or the puerperium | O00–O99 | |
Selected external causes of morbidity and mortality | ||
Falls | W00–W19 | |
Fires, burns | X00–X09 | |
Suicide and self-inflicted injuries | X60–X84, Y87.0 | |
Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care | Y60–Y69 | |
Medical devices associated with adverse incidents in diagnostic and therapeutic use | Y70–Y82 | |
Surgical and other medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of the patient, or of later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedure | Y83, Y84 | |
Other external causes of morbidity and mortality | ||
Transport accidents | V01–V99 | |
Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces | W20–W49 | |
Exposure to animate mechanical forces | W50–W64 | |
Accidental drowning and submersion | W65–W74 | |
Other accidental threats to breathing | W75–W84 | |
Exposure to electric current, radiation and extreme ambient air temperature and pressure | W85–W99 | |
Contact with heat and hot substances | X10–X19 | |
Contact with venomous animals and plants | X20–X29 | |
Exposure to forces of nature | X30–X39 | |
Accidental poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances | X40–X49 | |
Overexertion, travel and privation | X50–X57 | |
Accidental exposure to other and unspecified factors | X58,X59 | |
Assault | X85–Y09 | |
Event of undetermined intent | Y10–Y34 | |
Legal interventions and operations of war | Y35, Y36 | |
Drugs, medicaments and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic usen | Y40–Y59 | |
Sequelae of external causes of morbidity and mortality | Y85, Y86, Y87.1–Y89 |
• The rate of potentially avoidable deaths has decreased by around 20% in the last 10 years between 2008 and 2017. The rate in 2017 was 96.2 per 100,000 population (125.9 per 100,000 males and 67.3 per 100,000 females, with the male rate 1.9 times higher than the female rate).
• Aboriginal people died from potentially avoidable deaths at a rate around 2.4 times higher than non-Aboriginal people in the combined years 2012 to 2016.
• The rate of potentially avoidable deaths increases with increasing geographic remoteness, but has decreased over time for most categories of geographic remoteness.
• The rate of potentially avoidable deatsh increases with increasing levels of socioeconomic disadvantage.
Potentially Avoidable Deaths (PAD) are based on National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths.
Potentially avoidable deaths are those that occur before age 75 years and are caused by conditions that are potentially preventable through individualised care and/or treatable through existing primary or hospital care. Deaths are defined as avoidable in the context of the present health system.
Interventions aimed at reducing potentially avoidable deaths in NSW are embedded in strategies dealing with specific health issues or specific disadvantaged populations. Variation in potentially avoidable death rates among health regions reflect the distribution of the underlying social and economic determinants of health which are associated with the geographic clustering of populations of lower socioeconomic status, high Aboriginal populations and populations with a high prevalence of disease risk factors. Other factors such as access to primary health care and other health services, particularly specialist treatment services may also contribute to this variation.
Health services are increasingly able to manage chronic diseases and prolong life and more conditions are regarded as amenable to health care. Because this trend should continue, the rate of potentially avoidable deaths is likely to continue to decrease in the short- to medium- term. Reductions in the longer term, however, depend upon sustainable declines in the risk factors which cause the greatest number of potentially avoidable deaths. Ongoing prevention programs are required to reduce the prevalence of these risk factors in the population, including smoking, obesity, inadequate physical activity and poor nutrition.
Australian Bureau of Statistics at http://www.abs.gov.au
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare at http://www.aihw.gov.au
healthdirect at http://www.healthdirect.gov.au
• In 2017, there were 52,613 deaths of residents in NSW. The number of deaths has increased by around 9% in the 10 years since 2008. However, the death rate has decreased by around 15% over this period due to an increasing population
• The age standardised death rate was 508.8 per 100,000 population in NSW in 2017.
• In 2017 the age-adjusted male death rate was around 48% higher than the female death rate (615.9 compared with 416.3 per 100,000 population respectively). This difference has declined from 51% over the last 10 years since 2008.
• In 2017, there were 277 infant deaths in NSW, which was 2.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. The infant mortality rate in Australia was 3.3 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2017.
Death or mortality statistics are published at regular intervals in most countries and usually show numbers and rates of deaths by sex, age and other variables. A death rate is an estimate of the proportion of the population that dies during a specified period (Last 2001). In this report it is expressed as the number of deaths per 100,000 population (person-years).
The proportion of people in different age groups varies between geographic areas and over time and can therefore influence death rate comparisons within these dimensions. Age-adjustment (also known as age-standardisation) allows for the comparison of death rates across geographic areas and over time after removing the effects of the different age structures in these dimensions.
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Death rates from all causes are low in Australia and NSW by international standards. The World Health Organization classifies Australia into an ‘A stratum’, with very low child and adult mortality. Comparisons by country reveal that the probability of dying between 15 and 60 years per 1,000 population (WHO calculated adult mortality rate) spans from around 50 in selected developed countries to just under 500 in some African counties. Australia’s rate was 61 per 1,000 in 2016, which placed it in 16th out of 183 reported countries (WHO 2018).
World Health Organization. World health statistics. Geneva: WHO. Available at: https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.686?lang=en
Interventions aiming to reduce deaths rates in NSW are embedded in strategies dealing with specific health issues or specific disadvantaged populations.
Australian Bureau of Statistics at http://www.abs.gov.au
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare at http://www.aihw.gov.au
healthdirect at http://www.healthdirect.gov.au/