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The Australian mortality decline: cause-specific mortality 1907-1990

R Taylor¹, M Lewis, J Powles

¹Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

|May 26, 1998

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Mortality causes in Australia shifted significantly this century. Infectious disease deaths declined, while circulatory disease deaths initially rose then fell, and cancer deaths increased in males.

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Area of Science:

Public Health
Epidemiology
Demography

Background:

Australian mortality rates have declined substantially over the past century.
Understanding the changing composition of mortality by cause is crucial for public health policy.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze shifts in mortality composition by major causes in Australia from 1907 to 1990.
To identify trends in infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and external causes of death.

Main Methods:

Review of age-adjusted mortality data by major attributed cause.
Analysis of trends including infectious diseases, nonrheumatic cardiovascular disease, external causes, cancer, and ill-defined conditions.
Consideration of artefacts from diagnostic and coding changes.

Main Results:

Significant decline in infectious disease mortality, with half occurring before 1949.
Circulatory disease mortality peaked in the 1950s-1960s and declined by 1990.
Cancer mortality remained static for females but increased for males, plateauing in the mid-1980s.
External cause mortality declined after 1970.

Conclusions:

The overall mortality decline is linked to reduced infectious diseases and 'other' causes.
Shifts in mortality composition reflect complex interactions between declining infections and rising non-communicable diseases.
Post-1970 mortality decline driven by reductions across multiple major causes, despite rising male cancer rates.