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Patterns Of Mortality In Indigenous Adults In The Northern Territory, 1998–2003: Are People Living In More Remote Areas Worse Off?, Karen Andreasyan, Wendy E. Hoy
Patterns Of Mortality In Indigenous Adults In The Northern Territory, 1998–2003: Are People Living In More Remote Areas Worse Off?, Karen Andreasyan, Wendy E. Hoy
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Objective: ToquantifyIndigenousmortalityintheNorthernTerritorybyremotenessof residence.
Design, setting and participants: Australian Bureau of Statistics mortality data were used to compare rates of death from chronic disease in the NT Indigenous population with rates in the general Australian population over the period 1998–2003. Rates were evaluated by categories of remoteness based on the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia: outer regional areas (ORAs), remote areas (RAs) and very remote areas (VRAs). Main outcome measures: Mortality from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and renal disease; standardised mortality ratios (SMRs); percentage change in annual death rates; changes in mortality between 1998–2000 and 2001–2003.
Results: In 1998–2000, SMRs for all-cause mortality …