Sentences with phrase «avoidable death rates»

Avoidable death rates among the Maori, for example, are estimated to be almost double those of Europeans or other New Zealanders.3 Many indigenous people have one or more of a complex set of interlocking chronic diseases from a comparatively early age.9 Although these diseases are diagnosable and treatable, at least some of this avoidable mortality remains underdiagnosed and undertreated.

There are about 2,000 annual avoidable Aboriginal deaths out of a population about 670,000 Indigenous Australians (an avoidable death rate as a percentage of population of 0.4 % pa, similar to that in impoverished South Asia; it was 1.8 % pa in 2000, twice that in sub-Saharan Africa).

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Researchers reported high overall perinatal mortality in a study of home birth in Australia, 35 qualifying that low risk home births in Australia had good outcomes but that high risk births gave rise to a high rate of avoidable death at home.36 Two prospective studies in North America found positive outcomes for home birth, 23 24 but the studies were not of sufficient size to provide relatively stable perinatal death rates.

As tobacco use continued to cause avoidable misery, addiction, disease and early deaths, the smoking rate among adults and children fell to unprecedented lows.

The report showed a significant improvement was made in closing the gap in the number of child deaths — the Indigenous rate decreased by 35 per cent over five years, however Indigenous Australians are three times more likely to die of an avoidable cause.

Rates of avoidable deaths among indigenous people tend to be much higher than for non-indigenous people.