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21 Jan 2015 - Minor updates made. Previous version, released on 27 October 2014: Health indicators for Remote Service Delivery communities: a summary report (1.6KB PDF)
Health indicators for Remote Service Delivery communities: a summary report
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Topic: First Nations people
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) Health indicators for Remote Service Delivery communities: a summary report, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 April 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2014). Health indicators for Remote Service Delivery communities: a summary report. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Health indicators for Remote Service Delivery communities: a summary report. AIHW, 2014.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Health indicators for Remote Service Delivery communities: a summary report. Canberra: AIHW; 2014.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2014, Health indicators for Remote Service Delivery communities: a summary report, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report provides information on antenatal care, live births, low birthweight babies, hospitalisations (all and selected causes), disability, mortality, child protection, juvenile justice, alcohol and other drug use and aged care for 29 remote Indigenous communities. Where possible, data are presented at the jurisdictional and national level, and time series data provided for comparison. This information was compiled to inform an evaluation of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery (NPA RSD), conducted in 2013.
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-651-1
- Cat. no: IHW 142
- Pages: 67
Findings from this report:
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Teenage fertility rates were higher than national rates in SLAs where Remote Service Delivery communities are located
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Indigenous mothers in most RSD SLAs had higher rates of low birthweight babies than Indigenous women nationally
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Indigenous residents of RSD SLAs had an all-cause death rate over 3 times that of other Australians nationally