Selected Avoidable Mortality rate ratio trend

Brief description

Avoidable mortality (AM) is a simple and practical population-based method of

counting untimely and unnecessary deaths from diseases for which effective

public health and medical interventions are available. An excess of deaths due

to preventable causes should suggest shortcomings in the healthcare system

that warrant further attention. Five years of data has been aggregated for all

analyses to reduce year-to-year variability in deaths, and the width of

confidence intervals for areas with small populations. Data are presented by

calendar year (1 Jan to 31 Dec), consistent with the release of mortality data

by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.