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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

7 curated datasets · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU.

List the datasets

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/datasets/aihw

More examples: fetch data, inspect a schema

Fetch rows from one dataset:

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  'https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/aihw/GRIM_DEATHS?limit=10'

Inspect a dataset's schema and filters:

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/describe/aihw/GRIM_DEATHS

Datasets (6)

Every Australian Institute of Health and Welfare dataset, one call to /v1/data/aihw/{id} as JSON or CSV.

Dataset	What it is
CANCER_INCIDENCE_MORTALITY	Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM)
ED_WAITING_TIMES	Emergency Department Waiting Times (MyHospitals API)
GRIM_DEATHS	GRIM - General Record of Incidence of Mortality
MORT_GEOGRAPHY	MORT - Mortality Over Regions and Time
PUBLIC_HOSPITALS	Public Hospitals - AIHW Hospitals Databases (historical reference, 2016-17)
YOUTH_JUSTICE_DETENTION	Youth Justice Detention Data

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare also ships as a free, MIT-licensed Model Context Protocol server on PyPI, giving Claude and other agents search, describe, get_data and latest over AIHW data, no gateway key required.

pip install aihw-mcp

Attribution for every response is returned in meta.sources[].attribution. Reproduce it when you publish.