With more than 38 years’ experience, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is Australia’s authoritative source of health and welfare data and analysis. As an independent national information and statistics agency within the Commonwealth’s Health portfolio, the AIHW publishes more than 400 data products each year, maintains and administers specialised national data standards and classifications, and supports high quality research.
The AIHW’s vision of ‘stronger evidence, better decisions, improved health and welfare for all Australians’ signifies our organisation’s commitment to providing high quality, national data and analysis across the health, housing and community services sectors. This covers a wide range of areas, from health and welfare expenditure, hospital services, disease and injury, disability and mental health, to ageing, disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, homelessness, and First Nations health and wellbeing.