NORTHERN AUSTRALIA DATA
Health and Tropical Medicine
Healthcare is the largest employing industry in Northern Australia with 13% employment.
credit: CRCNA Health Service Delivery Situational Analysis 2020
Northern Australia has 68.95 health care workers per 1,000 residents.
credit: AEG Group 2022
40% of Northern Australians live in rural, remote or very remote communities/ townships with fewer than 8000 people.
credit: CRCNA Health Service Delivery Situational Analysis 2020
5.8% of the population of Northern Australia have Type 2 Diabetes.
credit: AEC Group via Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) 2022
Qld has 19,000 new type 2 diabetes cases each year, with 160 new cases diagnosed each day – that’s one person diagnosed every nine minutes
credit: Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine 2021
21.8% of the population of Northern Australia have mental and/or behavioural problems.
credit: AEC Group via Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) 2022