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Causes of death
• Cardiovascular diseases were responsible for nearly
one-third of the elevated male death rates in regional and
remote areas.
• Male death rates due to injury and poisoning in Very remote
areas were 3.1 times as high compared with Major cities.
- MVA (114% higher), assault (31% higher), suicide (33% higher)
• Male death rates from diabetes were 1.3 times as high in
Inner regional areas and 3.7 times as high in Very remote
areas as compared with males in Major cities.
Source: AIHW National Mortality Database.