Sentences with phrase «hospitalisation rates»

In 2003 - 04 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males were 7 times more likely, and females 31 times as likely as for males and females in the general population; hospitalisation rates for self - harm was twice as high.

Hospitalisation rates for assault or self - harm may also be indicative of mental illness and distress.

In 2003 - 04 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males were 7 times more likely, and females 31 times as likely as for males and females in the general population; hospitalisation rates for intentional self - harm was twice as high.46

One found that communities who transitioned from government control to local First Nations community control of health services experienced a 30 per cent reduction in hospitalisation rates.

Hospitalisation rates for children with intellectual disability or autism born in Western Australia 1983 — 1999: a population - based cohort study

The «Housing for Health» work that Paul drove has been shown to reduce hospitalisation rates in Aboriginal communities.

We are currently unable to track patient journey from primary health care and the quality of services they receive, through to the impact this has on hospitalisation rates and death — we are missing a large part of the «prevention» story on how to keep people healthy!

We also found lower traffic - related hospitalisation rates with higher cycling mode shares.

We found that females had lower bicycling hospitalisation rates than males in analyses of all injury causes, consistent with results found else - where and for other travel modes, an effect often attributed to conservative risk choices.

The results were released today in a study, Bicycling injury hospitalisation rates in Canadian jurisdictions: analyses examining associations with helmet legislation and mode share.

Hospitalisation rates for COPD are continuing to increase and a majority of asthma patients live with significant symptoms, impairing their quality of life.

Analysis of hospitalisation rates by electoral ward: relationship to accessibility and deprivation data

Between 1998 - 99 and 2005 - 06, their avoidable hospitalisation rate was 11,090 per 100,000 population, nearly four times higher than the Australian rate of 2,848 per 100,000.

However, these patterns of drinking are in turn associated with up to eight times the hospitalisation rate, and up to five times the death rate from alcohol - related conditions (compared with other Australians), and so contribute to ongoing trauma.

National data indicate that 50 % of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are living with a chronic condition or disability, and chronic diseases contribute to five times the hospitalisation rate for indigenous people living in Queensland, than for the non-indigenous population [2][4].

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The disabled child rate is payable if: · disability living allowance, personal independence payment or Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP) is payable for the child or is normally payable but has ceased because they are a patient in hospital; or · they are certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist, or has ceased to be registered or certified blind within 28 weeks immediately preceding the date of claim The severely disabled child rate is payable if: · the highest rate care component of disability living allowance or the enhanced daily living component of personal independence payment or any component of armed forces independence payment is payable for them or would be payable but for suspension or abatement due to hospitalisation 3.

Yet hospitalisation and death rates for acute respiratory illnesses continue to rise in spite of widespread vaccination programs.

«The purpose of working out such package rates and stabilising the hospitalisation costs, will benefit the insured in many ways,» the four state - run general insurance companies — National Insurance Co, New India Assurance Co, Oriental Insurance Co and United India Insurance Co — said in a joint public notice.

«We along with some TPAs (Third Party Administrators), worked out package rates for some of the procedures / hospitalisation expenses, which are commonly claimed under our health insurance policies,» the statement said.

• In the five years to 2011 — 12, the overall rate of potentially preventable hospitalisations fell by 3.4 % from 2485.9 to 2401.5 hospitalisations per 100 000 people.

But the rates of potentially preventable hospitalisations due to acute conditions and vaccine preventable conditions increased.

And recent research from the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study supports this, finding patients with diabetes have a one - third lower rate of hospitalisation if they receive regular diabetes - related care from their GP.

Our finding is supported by hospitalisation data showing that psychotic disorders are common and increasing in the Indigenous population of Far North Queensland.8 These disorders are associated with substance misuse and a surprisingly high rate of intellectual disability.

This equates to around 5 % of all Indigenous hospitalisations in the period July 2011 to June 2013 resulting in discharge against medical advice, as compared to the non-Indigenous rate of 0.5 %.

This is clearly evidenced by statistics from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (HPF 2014) which reports that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had lower rates of hospitalisations with a procedure recorded compared with non-Indigenous Australians, and they also had lower rates of elective surgery.

Nationally, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in remote locations have seven times the rate of potentially preventable hospitalisations compared to non-Indigenous Australians.

«There is a gap — there's high rates of distress in Aboriginal communities, there's higher rates of hospitalisations for mental health disorders, and there's certainly higher levels of suicide,» he said.

If primary health networks are intent on reducing the high rate of preventable hospitalisations in their region, their attention must turn to forming partnerships with Aboriginal community - controlled health services.

Aboriginal people have the poorest access to primary health care, shown by their high rate of potentially preventable hospitalisations.

This statistic measures the rate of hospitalisation for health conditions that could have been prevented if primary health care was accessible and appropriate.

At 2 years, group psychoeducation was associated with significantly fewer recurrences, hospitalisations and shorter hospital stays than unstructured group sessions (recurrence rate 67 % v 92 %, p < 0.01; mean number hospitalisations 0.3 v 0.8, p < 0.05; mean length of hospital stay: 5 days v 15 days, p < 0.05).

Hospitalisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males was six times as high, and among females was eight times as high, as the rates among the non-Indigenous population.

Recurrence - defined as a new acute episode according to DSM - IV criteria and scores on Young Mania Rating Scale; Hamilton Depression Rating Scale - 17, hospitalisations, and length of hospital stay.

Hospitalisation for ischaemic heart disease for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males was double the rate, and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females four times the rate, than for the general population.

These include proxy indicators such as access to Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, rates of hospitalisation from preventable diseases, rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections and so on.

Children of mothers who were stressed during pregnancy show increased susceptibility to asthma and allergies during childhood, as well as higher rates of hospitalisation for infectious diseases such as respiratory illness and gastroenteritis.

In 2005 — 06 there were more hospitalisations of Indigenous males and females than expected based on the rates for other Australians for most types of mental and behavioural disorders.