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Aboriginal peoples data book
Aboriginal peoples data book
The Health of the people of New South Wales
Report of the Chief Health Officer
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Summary
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- Around 148,178 Aboriginal people live in NSW, making up just over 2% of the total population and 29% of the total Australian Aboriginal population.
- The relative socioeconomic disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal people in NSW continues to place them at a greater risk of exposure to behavioural and environmental health risk factors.
- The Aboriginal population is younger, with 38% of the population under 15 years of age, compared with 19% of the non-Aboriginal population. The proportion of the Aboriginal population over the age of 65 years is just over 3%, compared with just over 13% of the non-Aboriginal population.
- Aboriginal people are more likely to die at younger ages. People aged less than 25 years make up around 10% of deaths of Aboriginal people, compared with 2% of deaths among non-Aboriginal people. Deaths among people aged 65 years and over account for around 41% of Aboriginal deaths, compared with 81% of non-Aboriginal deaths.
- The infant mortality rate for babies born to Aboriginal mothers was 7.5 per 1,000 births, almost twice the rate for all NSW babies.
- The leading causes of death for Aboriginal people are the same as for non-Aboriginal people - cardiovascular disease and cancer. However, Aboriginal people are more than twice as likely as non-Aboriginal people to die as a result of diabetes or from injuries.
- Aboriginal people are admitted to hospital at 1.7 times the rate of non-Aboriginal people. Renal dialysis accounts for the largest number of hospitalisations for Aboriginal people.
- Compared with rates for non-Aboriginal people, hospitalisation rates for Aboriginal people in NSW are:
- - 140% higher for conditions for which hospitalisation can be avoided through prevention and early management;
- - 210% higher for diabetes;
- - 40% higher for cardiovascular diseases;
- - 230% higher for chronic respiratory diseases;
- - 50% higher for injury and poisoning;
- - 240% higher for alcohol-related conditions.
- Lung cancer accounts for 14.9% of new cancer cases in Aboriginal people, compared with 9.0% in non-Aboriginal people. Cervical cancer comprises 5.8% of new cancer cases in Aboriginal women, 3.6 times the non-Aboriginal rate.
- Reported rates of current smoking for Aboriginal adults are double those for the total population across all age groups; while reported rates of risk drinking are around 1.4 times the total population rates across all age groups.
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File link: Aboriginal peoples data book
File size: &booksize
Type: Report
Date of Publication: &bookdate
Author Branch: Centre for Epidemiology & Research
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