AUSTRALIA is generally a healthy nation but there are some key areas where we could do better, according to the latest report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The biennial report card, 'Australia's health 2018', was launched yesterday by Minister for Health, Greg Hunt.
The report shows that Australia sits squarely in the best third of OECD countries when it comes to life expectancy, with girls born in 2016 likely to live 84.6 years, while boys can expect to live to 80.4 years.
Fewer of us are smoking or putting ourselves at risk from long-term alcohol use than in the past.
More of our children have been immunised and we're doing well in terms of preventing avoidable deaths, AIHW says.
Australians use a higher proportion of hospital and other health services and 75% of all PBS medicines were dispensed to people aged 50 and over.
See the report at aihw.gov.au.
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