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Rural and remote Australians are more likely to die at a younger age than people living elsewhere in the nation according to a new Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) report, but there are things you can do to ensure you live longer.
“As recently as 2020, females in very remote areas were likely to die 19 years earlier than their counterparts in major cities, 13.9 years for males. Mortality rates were 1.5 times as high for women living in rural and remote Australia’s those living in major cities, and 1.3 times as high for men” says the Best of the Bush report conducted by the RFDS.
“Life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in remote and very remote Australia was around 14 years less for Indigenous…