The Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC): Highway to health

The Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC): Highway to health The Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) Highway to health Peter Breadon, Lachlan Fox, and Owain Emslie February 2023 The Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC): Highway to health Grattan Institute Support Grattan Institute Report No. [...] We The prize on offer is enormous: the potential gains to the health system have independent bodies that force a focus on the future, in areas from and the wider economy run to tens of billions of dollars, and the quality climate change to monetary policy. [...] Grattan Institute 2023 7 The Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC): Highway to health 2 The burden of chronic disease is big, and growing Australians’ life expectancy is one of the highest in the world, but so of Australians, causing much more illness, death, and disability than is the number of years we can expect to live with chronic disease. [...] Figure 2.1: Chronic disease is by far the biggest component of The burden of chronic disease in Australia has increased by 38 per Australia’s disease burden cent over the past three decades.13 And the prevalence of many Total number of years lived with disability annually chronic diseases is continuing to rise (Figure 2.2 on the next page). [...] Rates of chronic disease prevalence by index of socio-economic disadvantage Indigenous Australians, poorer Australians, those with less education, One or more chronic conditions Two or more chronic conditions and those living in the most rural parts of the country face the biggest 50% barriers to health and are far more likely to be diagnosed with many common chronic diseases.33 Chronic diseases a.