Life expectancy, mortality, suicide, hospital waits and Medicare access.
Deaths from all causes per 1,000 people, standardised to a fixed age profile so changes reflect health outcomes rather than an ageing population.
Deaths where alcohol was the underlying cause, age-standardised per 100,000 people (ABS Causes of Death).
Potentially avoidable deaths of people under 75, age-standardised per 100,000 people, from the ABS Causes of Death collection.
Deaths where drugs were the underlying cause, age-standardised per 100,000 people (ABS Causes of Death).
Median waiting time in weeks from listing to admission for elective (planned) surgery in public hospitals.
Median time from arrival to departure from a public hospital emergency department (national, all patients). AIHW's state-level medians are not available to the dashboard.
The number of children who die before their first birthday, per 1,000 live births.
Average number of years a newborn is expected to live, based on current mortality rates.
Percentage of Medicare (MBS) services that are bulk billed, meaning patients pay no out-of-pocket cost.
The average patient contribution per service (out of hospital, total) for GP and other Medicare services nationally, from the health.gov.au Medicare quarterly statistics.
Deaths from motor vehicle accidents (V01-V79, V89.2) by year of registration, from the ABS Causes of Death collection. BITRE's monthly road-death bulletins are not machine-readable, so this is the automated annual series.
Age-standardised deaths from intentional self-harm per 100,000 people, the ABS headline measure, all ages and both sexes combined.
