The Burden of Disease in Western Australia

20 February 2023

Department of Health WA publishes a range of data and reports about the burden of disease and associated healthcare expenditure in WA. Results are not comparable across years due to methodology differences.

2006

This report quantifies the burden of disease and injury in Western Australia in 2006 that could have been prevented if nine preventable health risk factors were reduced to a level that is considered a theoretical minimum. The risk factors chosen were limited to public health priority areas, namely tobacco, alcohol, physical inactivity, illicit drugs, inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption, unsafe sex, high body mass, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol.