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

Details:

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 25 Figure 1: Fetal, Neonatal and Perinatal deaths by Indigenous Status, NT 19862005 Indigenous 0 15 30 45 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 Deaths per 1000 Fetal death Fetal death (trendline) Neonatal death Neonatal death (trendline) Perinatal death Perinatal death (trendline) Non-Indigenous 0 15 30 45 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 Deaths per 1000 Fetal death Fetal death (trendline) Neonatal death Neonatal death (trendline) Perinatal death Perinatal death (trendline) Source: Health Gains Planning branch, NT Department of Health and Families using ABS deaths dataset and population data. Figure 1 indicates that there has been long term downward trends in NT death rates for fetal, neonatal and perinatal deaths for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. The Indigenous fetal and perinatal deaths over this 20 year period have declined by 58% and 45% respectively.