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AN ANALYSIS OF WHITE AND ABORIGINAL CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS OF AGE ADMITTED TO THE BOURKE DISTRICT HOSPITAL FROM SEPTEMBER 1971 TO AUGUST 1972 1
Author(s) -
KAMIEN M.,
CAMERON PAT
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1974.tb02801.x
Subject(s) - medicine , shire , white (mutation) , pediatrics , population , demography , family medicine , environmental health , philosophy , biochemistry , linguistics , chemistry , sociology , gene
SYNOPSIS This study includes all white and Aboriginal children under the age of 5 years admitted to the Bourke District Hospital over a 12 month period. 15% of all white children and 72% of all Aboriginal children in the Bourke shire were admitted to hospital on at least one occasion; Aboriginal children had proportionately 10 times the number of hospital admissions on a population basis.