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NEONATAL AND INFANT MORTALITY RATES AMONG AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS
Author(s) -
Dugdale A. E.,
Prestwood Ursula,
Stuart J. E.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb76506.x
Subject(s) - demography , infant mortality , medicine , rural area , mortality rate , population , neonatal mortality , rural population , rural community , geography , environmental health , pathology , sociology
The neonatal death rates for areas known to have a significant Aboriginal population are similar to those for the comparable rural areas and are higher than that in the Brisbane area. The death rates in Infants aged from one month to one year are greater in rural areas than in Brisbane, but are greater again in those shires with a significant Aboriginal community. It seems likely that the excess deaths occur among Aboriginal infants. Measures designed to protect Infants between the ages of one month and one year should reduce this mortality rate.