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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is an independent government agency that collects and collates data on health and welfare issues, including suicide and self harm.

AIHW manages the National Suicide and Self-harm Monitoring System, providing national data on suicide and self-harm from a number of sources, and also coordinates suicide monitoring of serving and ex-serving Australian Defence Force members.

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National Suicide and Self-harm Monitoring System

The National Suicide and Self-harm Monitoring System has been established as part of the national effort to address suicide and self-harm in Australia.

Serving and ex-serving Australian Defence Force suicide monitoring

AIHW has worked with the Department of Defence to link information from Defence personnel systems to a variety of health and welfare data.