Healthy Queensland - Preventable diseases
2020 Target: Cut obesity, smoking, heavy drinking and unsafe sun exposure by one third
Measure: proportion of Queenslanders who are overweight/obese, high risk/risky drinkers, daily smokers and get sunburnt (sources: Australian Social Trends, ABS and National Sun Protection Survey, Cancer Council of Australia).
Lead agency: Queensland Health.
Current health statistics
About 87% of all health problems, disabilities and early deaths in Queensland are due to preventable chronic diseases.
More than a third of this disease burden results from a range of risk factors, including being overweight, smoking and drinking too much alcohol and getting sunburnt.
Latest data available for Queensland men and women shows:
- 62.8% of men and 47.8% of women are overweight or obese.
- 17.5% of men and 14.4% of women smoke daily.
- 12% of men and 9.4% of women are heavy drinkers.
- 13% of adult Queenslanders were sunburnt on the weekend during the summer of 2008.
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Last updated Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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