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Annual report 2009-2010, NT Child Deaths Review and Prevention Committee

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Title

Annual report 2009-2010, NT Child Deaths Review and Prevention Committee

Other title

NT Child Deaths Review and Prevention Committee annual report 2009-2010

Creator

Office of the Children's Commissioner Northern Territory

Collection

E-Publications; PublicationNT; E-Books; The Children's Commissioner Northern Territory annual report; Annual reports

Date

2010

Notes

Date:2010; Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Language

English

Subject

Children, Aboriginal Australian; Northern Territory; Periodicals; Death; Causes; Statistics; Periodicals; Children and death; Periodicals

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Casuarina

Series

The Children's Commissioner Northern Territory annual report; Annual reports

Volume

2009-2010

File type

application/pdf

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/236802

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/640686

Page content

Page 13 large proportion of infant deaths, while deaths from External Causes occurred almost exclusively in the 10 to 17 years age range. 4. In the 2006-2008 period, 15 child deaths resulted from intentional self-harm. All these children were Aboriginal and all but one of these events was the result of hanging. The rates of hanging during this period were at least 5 times and up to 13 times higher than reported for NSW and Qld respectively. These standout findings clearly call for urgent research and action and will help to determine the research agenda of the Committee in coming years.