All individual Avoidable Mortality rates

Avoidable mortality (AM) is a simple and practical population-based method ofcounting untimely and unnecessary deaths from diseases for which effectivepublic health and medical interventions are available. An excess of deaths dueto preventable causes should suggest shortcomings in the healthcare systemthat warrant further attention. Five years of data has been aggregated for allanalyses to reduce year-to-year variability in deaths, and the width ofconfidence intervals for areas with small populations. Data are presented bycalendar year (1 Jan to 31 Dec), consistent with the release of mortality databy the Australian Bureau of Statistics.