Reading between the lines on government data croakey.org/reading-betwee… Via @stephenjduckett @AnikaStobart & @ConversationEDU and also HT @lindadoherty21 editing @CroakeyNews this week
The new @ozprodcom report sheds light, among other things, on potentially preventable deaths. In 2019, more than 28,000 Australians under 75 died from conditions that are potentially avoidable, including “deaths of despair” such as suicide or drug or alcohol abuse...
...conditions such as breast or skin cancer; falls, fires and burns; heart failure; or asthma. Notably, there are significant differences in the rates of potentially avoidable deaths between the states, from 128 per 100,000 in Tasmania to 100 in South Australia...
"This should lead Tasmanians to ask their state government: why the big difference?" cc @CroakeyServices @GeoffCouser
"The report also highlights quite detailed areas of failure. In 2018-19 almost 6,000 people with diabetes had to have a limb amputated — about 20 people per 100,000 population. figures varied from 40 per 100,000 in ACT to 17 in NSW.
"Again, the question for the ACT government is: what preventive services are missing in the ACT?"
The @CroakeyNews post also links into the recent @ozprodcom Justice report (actually, that should be the "Injustice" report). The national imprisonment rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in 2019-20 was 11 times higher than for non-Indigenous people
In 2019-20, there were 12,456 Indigenous people in Australia’s 115 custodial facilities, up from 11,989 in 2018-19 and 7,507 in 2010-11. #StructuralViolence #RacistSystems #SDOH
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