This report presents overweight and obesity rates at the local level across Australia. In 2011–12, 10.8 million adults were either overweight or obese, and of these 4.7 million were obese. This report shows that the percentage of adults who were obese varied threefold across local areas, from 14% in Sydney North Shore and Beaches to...

Immunisation helps protect individuals and the community generally against potentially serious diseases such as measles, polio, tetanus and whooping cough (pertussis). Although the great majority of children in Australia are immunised, it is important to maintain high immunisation rates to reduce the risk of outbreaks of these and other diseases recurring. Australian governments and experts...

The National Health Performance Authority began operations in 2012 as an independent body to provide locally relevant and nationally consistent information on the performance of hospitals and other health care organisations. This report, the Authority’s second, allows for the first time the public, clinicians and health managers to see results for both use and experience...

The National Health Performance Authority was set up set up under the National Health Reform Act 2011 as an independent body to provide locally relevant and nationally consistent information on the performance of healthcare organisations and health systems. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to a set of nearly 50 indicators that will be...