Australia's health 2020.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

23rd July 2020

Australia's health 2020 is the AIHW's 17th biennial report on the health of Australians. It is a mix of short statistical updates and longer discussions exploring selected topical issues. Australia’s health also serves as a ‘report card’ on the health of Australians by looking at how we are faring as a nation.

•   An estimated 11.6% of Australian adults were daily smokers in 2019, less than half the rate in 1991 (25%)

•   3 in 10 Indigenous Australians had an Indigenous-specific health check in 2017–18, nearly triple the rate in 2010–11

•   There were 11.5 million hospitalisations in 2018–19—6.9 million in public hospitals; 4.6 million in private hospitals

Includes:

• health performance data by State & Territory, Primary Health Network and Hospital
• data insights - inluding in depth articles on key topics
• Australia's health in brief - short visula report summarising key findings
• resources - a collection of resources realting to Austria's health including infographics.

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Australian clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation 2018
and
Australian clinical guidelines for the management of heart failure 2018

The National Heart foundation of Australia & the Cardiac Society of ANZ have developed two clinical guidelines for to assist clinicians in caring for adult patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure.

The full clinical guidelines are available in the journal Heart, Lung and Circulation:  

- Australian clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation 2018 (October 2018, Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 1209–1266): Click Here to access via: RMH, RWH, PMCC

- Australian clinical guidelines for the management of heart failure 2018 (Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 1123–1208): Click Here to access via: RMH, RWH, PMCC

NSW Clinical Guidelines: Treatment of Opioid Dependence 2018

NSW Health has developed these guidelines that seek to provide clinical guidance and policy direction for opioid treatment in NSW.

The guidelines aim to improve access to opioid treatment by:

• Personalise patient care by introducing a system that differentiates between those who have low/moderate treatment needs and can be treated in community settings and those with complex/high treatment needs and should be referred to and treated in the specialist treatment sector
• Support more effective coordination of care across health services.

These guidelines are intended for use in generalist health settings (for example primary care, hospital, clinic or community settings) as well as specialised drug and alcohol / opioid treatment clinics.

The Guideline can be accessed at: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/aod/Pages/nsw-clinical-guidelines-opioid.aspx

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