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Burden of disease data book
Burden of disease data book
The Health of the people of New South Wales
Report of the Chief Health Officer
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- Life expectancy in NSW continues to increase. In 2006:
- - Newborn males could expect to live for 79.3 years, while newborn females could expect to live for 84.2 years.
- - Men who have reached age 65 years can expect to live to 83.7 years of age, while women who have reached age 65 can expect to live to 87.0 years of age.
- - Although females can still expect to live longer than males, the difference between the sexes is decreasing.
- Australia has the third highest life expectancy in the world.
- The age standardised death rate in NSW has more than halved in the last 35 years. The male death rate was 50% higher than the female rate in 2006.
- In 2006, almost two-thirds of premature deaths were classified as avoidable (65%). Avoidable deaths rate has more than halved in the last 20 years.
- In 2006, the infant mortality rate was 4.9 per 1,000 live births in NSW and 4.7 per 1,000 live births in Australia; the 20th best in the world.
- Hospital separations have increased by more than 27% over the last fifteen years but only 11% in the last 10 years. The rate was consistently higher in females, but the gap is narrowing. In 2006-07 the most common causes of hospital separations were: factors influencing health: dialysis, factors influencing health: other, maternal conditions, injury and poisoning and digestive system diseases.
- Over three-quarters of adult NSW residents rated their health as 'good' or better in 2007 (81%) and more than one-fifth reported 'excellent' health. Almost one-half of children were reported to enjoy 'excellent' health (47.5%).
- The disease burden (measured by disability adjusted life years) was greater in NSW than in Australia from infectious diseases, neonatal causes, non-cancerous tumours, mental conditions, cardiovascular, chronic respiratory and genitourinary diseases.
- Ambulatory care sensitive conditions hospitalisation rates have increased over the last 18 years by almost 8%, but hospitalisation for vaccine-preventable conditions dropped by three-quarters in the same period.
- There were over 21,000 hospital separations for knee and hip replacement in NSW in 2006-07, and almost 80 % of those were due to osteoarthritis.
- Dementia is the single biggest contributor to the cost of care in residential aged care. Most people with dementia are over 65 years old and have other chronic conditions.
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File link: Burden of disease data book
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Type: Report
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Author Branch: Centre for Epidemiology & Research
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