Interesting analysis. The 'Deaths in Australia' series published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows a similar story. The series includes an interesting section titled 'Potentially Avoidable Deaths':
The opening paragraph defines potentially avoidable deaths as "deaths among people younger than 75 due to conditions that could have been prevented within the present health care system. They include deaths from conditions that are potentially preventable through individualised care and/or treatable through existing primary or hospital care. Potentially avoidable deaths serve as an indicator of the health of Australians and the performance of the healthcare system (Department of Health 2020, AIHW 2024)".
Over the period 1997 to 2023, the potentially avoidable age-standardised death rate fell by 50% from 193 to 97 deaths per 100,000 with a similar reduction for males (50%) and females (49%). That is an impressive achievement and demonstrates what is possible when governments make an effort to improve the health of their citizens. However, according to Figure 6.1, males accounted for 65% of these deaths at both the start and the end of the series, meaning that no progress was made in closing the gap in potentially avoidable deaths between males and females. If instead of showing the difference between males and females, Figure 6.1 showed the difference between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, there would be universal outrage at the apparent failure to 'close the gap'. However, because males are an out-group, not one of the favoured identity groups, no apparent effort has been made to close the gap in more than a quarter of a century.
Suicide alone accounted for 12% of the potentially avoidable male deaths (Figure 6.2), but Australia's National Suicide Prevention Strategy 2025-2035 includes only one action (7.3a) specifically targeting men:
"Comprehensively review men’s engagement with existing support options for people with suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Use the findings as the foundation for a co-design process to develop new models to better meet the needs of men."
Elsewhere, action 7.3a is described as "Trialling service models that are tailored to men, building workforce knowledge of gender and masculinity constructs, and increasing capacity
to apply this knowledge, is central to improving the effectiveness of suicide prevention supports available to men". In other words, instead of focusing on the situational distress that is at the heart of most male suicides, the government prefers to attribute the higher suicide rate among men to "gender and masculinity constructs". That tells you everything you need to know about the Australian Government. To describe them as filth would be much too kind.
Yes, I have published a graph of such data previously. The reason that fatal occupational injuries were not included in this specific post is because, for purposes of consistency, this post was limited to data that are presented in the annual "Deaths: Final Data" reports published by the National Center for Health Statistics. In those reports, data on fatal occupational injuries are not listed under accident deaths.
Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1992-2023
• Each year, about 10-12 times more men than women die from injuries sustained at work.
• Between 1992-2023, the average yearly number of men and women who died from workplace injuries was 5,062 and 426, respectively.
• Over this time, 161,970 men and 13,628 women died from injuries sustained at work.
• Since 1992, men have made up 92.2% of cases of fatal occupational injuries.
Thanks for these! They tell quite a story. Great resource!
Thanks James, an outstanding presentation of the data, I'll blog a link now.
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Thank you, Mike. Much appreciated.
Interesting analysis. The 'Deaths in Australia' series published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows a similar story. The series includes an interesting section titled 'Potentially Avoidable Deaths':
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/life-expectancy-deaths/deaths-in-australia/contents/potentially-avoidable-deaths
The opening paragraph defines potentially avoidable deaths as "deaths among people younger than 75 due to conditions that could have been prevented within the present health care system. They include deaths from conditions that are potentially preventable through individualised care and/or treatable through existing primary or hospital care. Potentially avoidable deaths serve as an indicator of the health of Australians and the performance of the healthcare system (Department of Health 2020, AIHW 2024)".
Over the period 1997 to 2023, the potentially avoidable age-standardised death rate fell by 50% from 193 to 97 deaths per 100,000 with a similar reduction for males (50%) and females (49%). That is an impressive achievement and demonstrates what is possible when governments make an effort to improve the health of their citizens. However, according to Figure 6.1, males accounted for 65% of these deaths at both the start and the end of the series, meaning that no progress was made in closing the gap in potentially avoidable deaths between males and females. If instead of showing the difference between males and females, Figure 6.1 showed the difference between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, there would be universal outrage at the apparent failure to 'close the gap'. However, because males are an out-group, not one of the favoured identity groups, no apparent effort has been made to close the gap in more than a quarter of a century.
Suicide alone accounted for 12% of the potentially avoidable male deaths (Figure 6.2), but Australia's National Suicide Prevention Strategy 2025-2035 includes only one action (7.3a) specifically targeting men:
"Comprehensively review men’s engagement with existing support options for people with suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Use the findings as the foundation for a co-design process to develop new models to better meet the needs of men."
Elsewhere, action 7.3a is described as "Trialling service models that are tailored to men, building workforce knowledge of gender and masculinity constructs, and increasing capacity
to apply this knowledge, is central to improving the effectiveness of suicide prevention supports available to men". In other words, instead of focusing on the situational distress that is at the heart of most male suicides, the government prefers to attribute the higher suicide rate among men to "gender and masculinity constructs". That tells you everything you need to know about the Australian Government. To describe them as filth would be much too kind.
Thank you for sharing the link and quotes from the Australian dataset.
I’m with you Tim on this
James, sometimes in data compilations of this sort there are figures for workplace-related deaths. Invariably at least 90% of the dead are men.
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Yes, I have published a graph of such data previously. The reason that fatal occupational injuries were not included in this specific post is because, for purposes of consistency, this post was limited to data that are presented in the annual "Deaths: Final Data" reports published by the National Center for Health Statistics. In those reports, data on fatal occupational injuries are not listed under accident deaths.
Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1992-2023
• Each year, about 10-12 times more men than women die from injuries sustained at work.
• Between 1992-2023, the average yearly number of men and women who died from workplace injuries was 5,062 and 426, respectively.
• Over this time, 161,970 men and 13,628 women died from injuries sustained at work.
• Since 1992, men have made up 92.2% of cases of fatal occupational injuries.
https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/workplace-injury-deaths-1992-2023
Thanks James, appreciated.
Yet despite these amazing statistics women are still the only victim and get all funding sigh.
Diabetes data is surprising… suicide not so. Men are not looking after themselves and hugely over represented
Great data James.
As I've commented previously, my 34 year old lawyer son recently died from alcoholism brought on by the draconian Victorian Covid restrictions.
The US data on alcohol-related deaths at least tells me he was not alone.
Thank you for reminding us of your son's story, Gareth. He was indeed not alone.
No one cares about men or boys. And men and boys should live their lives accordingly.
PS. All women are manhates and men should live their lives accordingly.