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Diabetes on rise & new treatment subsidies
New study provides greater insight into Australians living with younger onset dementia
Covid restrictions saw alcohol and other drug treatment service providers adapt
Mental health and suicide in Australia
Lowest birth rate in more than decade but most newborn babies are healthy
Health service use by Australians in their last year of life
Every 8 minutes Australian is diagnosed with diabetes
Who you are and where you live affects your likelihood of getting, and surviving, cancer
Amid NAIDOC week, Indigenous children are up to 20 times as likely to be in prison
AIHW releases 2022 report card on health of Australians
Slow growth in social housing dwellings across Australia
Social housing shrinks as demand surges – AIHW
One in three Victorians feel rental pinch as new data availability of social housing drops
More people injured at home during early months of Covid
Hospital admissions rose as Covid restrictions eased in most states and territories in 202021
Political parties make promises on rural health
Youth justice supervision rates continue to fall
Young people’s health and wellbeing: we must not leave them behind
Award-winning Youth Mental Health model Live4Life coming to Central Go
National report shines light on epilepsy in Australia
Covid restrictions led to fewer sports injury hospitalisations in 201920
Pharmacists can help resolve troubling aged care findings
New Sport Australia and AIS project to make sport safer
National sports injury data strategy consultation begins, as new data reveals potential health savings from improving injury
900 fewer younger people aged under 65 living in residential aged care
AMA calls for national plan to address backlog of essential operations
Even more elective surgery patients forced to wait more than year
Public hospitals worked to clear elective surgery backlog during 202021
Prostate cancer in Australia – what do numbers tell us?
Pandemic drove government health spending up in 2019-20
Public hospital emergency presentations rebound in 2020-21
New reports spotlight hospitalisations due to family, domestic and sexual violence and service responses
ACEM responds to AIHW emergency department care report 2020-21
Covid continues to impact public hospital emergency departments in 202021
First national report provides insights into safety of children in care
Life and work experiences of Australians with chronic conditions
COVID has shown us we know how to end homelessness – but latest homelessness stats show that we are failing to do this
42% of specialist homelessness services clients have experienced family and domestic violence
Cancer survival rates are improving in Australia
Number of adoptions in Australia lowest since AIHW records began
Cancer survival rates continue to improve, while death and incidence rates fall
Health impact of coronary heart disease decreases, but still has highest disease burden for Australians
Statement, AMA President, Dr Omar Khorshid: Children aged 12 still too young for jail
Recruiting more mental health workers won’t stop suicides
New insights into suicide and self-harm in Australia, including potentially-modifiable risk factors
Grant success to deliver new treatments for heart disease
WHO and AIHW release new mental health data
Annual AIHW report highlights need for veterans’ support