BEING male, Indigenous or living
in a very remote area are significant
factors affecting death rates,
according to a new report from the
Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW).
It found the death rate from
2009-11 for males was 1.5 times
as high as the rate for females,
almost twice as high for Indigenous
Australians compared with non-
Indigenous Australians and 1.4
times as high for people living in
remote areas compared with those
in major cities.
Those who lived in areas of the
lowest socioeconomic status had
a death rate 1.3 times as high as
those living in areas of the highest
status, with death rates from
diabetes and chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease “notably
higher” at 1.8 and 1.7 times as
high, AIHW spokesperson Louise
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