Foreword
The health of Queensland. Report of the Chief Health Officer Queensland is the 10th in the series from Queensland’s Chief Health Officer. It has three objectives:
- to provide a public assessment of the health status of the population
- to be a reference document for health practitioners in Queensland
- to inform strategic policy and planning within Queensland Health.
Suggested citation: Queensland Health. The health of Queenslanders. Report of the Chief Health Officer Queensland. Queensland Government. Brisbane 2025.
There is the potential for minor revisions of the data in this report. Please check for updates and amendments. Past reports can be accessed from the Queensland Government Publications portal.
Acknowledgements
Executive leadership: Dr Heidi Carroll, Chief Health Officer, Queensland; Ross Andrews, Executive Director Public Health Intelligence Branch (PHI), Queensland Public Health and Scientific Services (QPHaSS); Matthew Brown, Consultant Public Health Officer, Office of the Chief Health Officer (OCHO); Naomi Main, Director, OCHO; Susan Clemens, Manager Epidemiology, PHI.
Overall report development, data analysis, writing and editing: Susan Clemens, Shelly Lachish, Taku Endo, Douglas Lincoln, Tim Roselli, Darren White, Jia-Li Feng, and Bridie Thompson from the Population Health Epidemiology and Economics (PHEE) unit, PHI and Ariel Nidea (web publishing, Communicable Diseases Branch).
Development, data analysis and writing of specific report sections from other areas: Daniel Williamson, Abdulla Suleman, and Lucy Stanley, First Nations Health Office (First Nations peoples sections); Bridget Appleyard, Ellen Gielis and Ben Stute, Office of the Chief Dental Officer (Dental and oral health); John Piispanen, Andrea Casasola and Health Protection Branch (Environmental Health).
Data provision, subject matter expertise and/or data quality review support: Public Health Intelligence Branch, Prevention Strategy Branch, Statistical Services Branch, Cancer Alliance Queensland, Office of the Chief Psychiatrist and Mental Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Branch, Communicable Diseases Branch, Strategy and Coordination Branch (Cancer Screening Unit), Children’s Health Queensland (Healthy Hearing) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
It is acknowledged that other areas and individuals contributed to the delivery of this report. This includes team members who changed roles (Dr John Gerrard) but contributed to this report while they were in specific areas, and administrative support.
Website design: The Digital Transformation Team, Strategic Policy and Reform Division contributed to the design of this website.
Digital-first delivery
This is the second report of the series delivered as a digital-first product and is available from https://choreport.health.qld.gov.au.
Additional content enabled by digital delivery:
- More in-depth feature articles were added so that selected topics could be explored in more detail.
- Data dashboards previously as separate webpages were integrated into the report and were expanded to include longer term trends. How to videos demonstrate interactive graph features.
- Designated sections for First Nations peoples’ health and regional health.
- Health differences by remoteness and area-based measures of socioeconomic status were expanded in line with Queensland Health’s broader health equity principles.
The report continues to provide:
- 12-month snapshots—more frequently or real-time updates are out of scope.
- both statewide and sub-state results (Hospital and Health Services and Primary Health Networks).
Scope
This report presents the health status of Queenslanders. Analysis is therefore focused on Queensland residents and their health behaviours and outcomes.
This focus means that services provided to non-Queensland residents are excluded in most cases. Results may vary from those provided by other sources for this and other reasons.
Where Queensland results are not available, national results may be provided. The group/s included in analysis is explicitly stated.
Data sources
Data sources were reviewed to identify those best able to meet the objectives of a digital-first Chief Health Officer report. Data sources may have changed from previous reports. More information is provided on the data sources page.