Disease burden falls
May 12, 2016
THE Australian population has
enjoyed a drop in the overall
burden of disease and injury with
reductions between 2003 and 2011,
according to a report released this
week by the Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The report, ‘Australian Burden of
Disease Study: Impact and causes
of illness and death in Australia
2011’, analyses the impact of
diseases and injuries in terms of
the number of years of healthy life
lost through living with an illness
or injury (the non-fatal burden)
and the number of years of life lost
through dying prematurely from an
illness or injury (the fatal burden).
‘We found that there was
a 10% fall in total burden,
that is, the fatal and non-fatal
components combined’, said AIHW
spokesperson and report co-author
Dr Lynelle Moon.
Among all the disease groups, the
largest fall in the fatal burden was
seen in cardiovascular diseases,
where rates fell by nearly one-third.
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