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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 44 Figure 16: NT Stillbirths by Aboriginal Status 20062009 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 2007 2008 2009 N u m b er o f S ti llb ir th s Aboriginal Non-Aboriginal Table 17: NT Stillbirths by Aboriginal Status 20062009 Aboriginal Non-Aboriginal Total 2006 28 16 44 2007 26 6 32 2008 17 10 27 2009 22 15 37 Total 93 47 140 As with child deaths, there is a consistent pattern in which the number of registered stillbirths is higher for the Aboriginal population. However, there may be an overall trend for decline in stillbirths even though there is an increase of deaths for 2009. A longer period of analysis is likely to be required to ascertain if this is a consistent trend. Figure 17: NT Neonatal Deaths 20062009 0 5 10 15 20 25 Total N um be r of D ea th s 2006 2007 2008 2009 Table 18: NT Neonatal Deaths 20062009 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total Total 19 22 18 18 77 The neonatal period is from birth to 28 days of age. There is no discernible variation over the 4 year period.