Table of contents

  • Preliminary materials
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • 1.1 Background to the report
      • 1.2 Aims of this report
      • 1.3 Stakeholder consultation
      • 1.4 Structure of this report
    • 2 Definitions and methods
      • 2.1 Measuring perinatal mortality
      • 2.2 Cause of death classification
      • 2.3 Investigation of perinatal deaths
      • 2.4 Data used in this report
      • 2.5 Data availability, presentation and interpretation
    • 3 Perinatal deaths in Australia 2011 and 2012
      • 3.1 Perinatal mortality rates
      • 3.2 Perinatal mortality not due to congenital anomaly in late pregnancy
      • 3.3 Perinatal deaths by state and territory
      • 3.4 Perinatal deaths by maternal characteristics
      • 3.5 Perinatal deaths by baby characteristics
      • 3.6 Perinatal deaths among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
    • 4 Cause of perinatal deaths in Australia
      • 4.1 PSANZ-PDC and PSANZ-NDC cause of perinatal deaths
    • 5 Trends in perinatal mortality
      • 5.1 Maternal age
      • 5.2 Parity
      • 5.3 Birth plurality
      • 5.4 Gestational age
      • 5.5 Maternal Indigenous status
    • 6 Conclusion
  • End matter
    • Appendix A: NPDC 'Baby death' data available for this report
    • Appendix B: Supplementary data available for this report
    • Appendix C: The national perinatal mortality data collection data quality statement
    • Appendix D: Data used in figures
    • Appendix E: Expert advisory group members
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Related publications