Majority rule for assigning Aboriginality in linked hospital data

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2012 vol. 36 no. 5 © 2012 The Authors. ANZJPH © 2012 Public Health Association of Australia of rates in the US and Canada. Rates of prescription were highest in South Australia and Western Australia despite low to moderate overall levels of depression. The current findings add to the growing evidence that antenatal depression is associated with a complex set of fetal exposures and suggest that clinicians need to be aware that women presenting with antenatal depression are also more likely to use a range of other medications as well as smoke and drink alcohol more frequently. This may imply the need for additional professional advice, intervention and public health campaigns to reduce the prevalence of these exposures over pregnancy.