Australia's Health Tracker series

Australia's Health Tracker series measures national progress on a range of health issues, including chronic disease, oral health, and mental health in Australian children and adults. These trackers are used by a range of policy-makers to inform decision-making at local, state and national level.

Our work is guided by preventive health principles developed by the Australian Health Policy Collaboration, and endorsed by more than 50 of Australia’s leading health organisations.

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Rosemary Calder

Professor of Health Policy, Mitchell Institute

Regional & wealthy areas more likely to be boozy

18 December 2019

Some of Australia’s wealthier and traditionally healthier areas along with regional areas have the highest risky drinking rates in the country.

Australia’s health off track

10 December 2019

The national report card on Australia’s health shows that we are not on track to meet our health targets, and foreshadows a rise in preventable chronic illness.

Australia’s health tracker 2019

10 December 2019

Australia’s Health Tracker is a set of national report cards tracking the health risk factors in the Australian population that contribute to preventable chronic diseases.

Forget the long-term health benefits, get active for the short-term rewards

10 October 2019

Physical activity levels remain low, but changing our messaging to focus on the social and mental health benefits of physical exercise may motivate people to move.

Call for a National Dementia Campaign

1 August 2019

A new paper supported by 50 of the Australia's leading health organisations calls for a national dementia prevention campaign.

Australian health system favours the wealthy

2 July 2019

Mitchell Institute Health policy expert Ben Harris said the steep fees charged by specialists meant the wealthiest Australians also ended up being the healthiest.

Parts of Australia stuck in a smoking time warp

31 May 2019

Parts of Australia are stuck in a smokers’ time warp, experiencing smoking rates not seen nationally since the 1970s.

New report calls for health system shake-up

28 February 2019

The nation’s leading health policy experts have kept agreeing with each other that Australia’s health system is too complex and under stress.

Australia’s mental & physical health tracker

7 August 2018

Australia’s Mental and Physical Health Tracker is the first Australian study to quantify how poor physical health contributes to a wide range of mental health conditions including anxiety and depression.

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