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Information leaflets

Detailed factsheet: Victorian Aboriginal Child Mortality Study, 1988-2008 [ PDF 4.2mb ]

Short pamphlet to inform community groups, health services and the public:Victorian Aboriginal Child Mortality Study, 1988-2008 [ PDF 2.1mb ]

Findings & publications

An Overview of Statutory and Administrative Datasets: Describing the Health of Victoria's Aboriginal Infants, Children and Young People [ PDF 11.39mb ]

This report is the first from the Victorian Aboriginal Child Mortality Study, 1988-2008. The first of its kind in Victoria, the report investigates population-based administrative and statutory datasets that collect information describing the health of Victoria's Aboriginal (and non-Aboriginal) infants, children and young people.

Citation: Heffernan, B., Sheridan, S. & Freemantle, J. 2009, An Overview of Statutory and Administrative Datasets: Describing the Health of Victoria’s Aboriginal Infants, Children and Young People, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

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Resources & Links

The following constitutes a list of suggested resources and links regarding the identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in health and mortality statistics and the reporting of Victorian births, hospitalisations and deaths in Victoria.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

ABS Indigenous Statistical Releases

3301.0 - Births, Australia, 2007

3302.0 - Deaths, Australia, 2007

3302.0.55.002 - Discussion Paper: Assessment of Methods for Developing Life Tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2006

4723.0 - Information Paper: Census Data Enhancement - Indigenous Mortality Quality Study, 2006-07

Australian Institute of Health & Welfare

AIHW publications

The ABS standard question on Indigenous status

Collecting Indigenous status information

Department of Health (formerly Department of Human Services)

Koori Health Counts! 2006/07

Aboriginal Human Services Plan January 2008 – December 10

Aboriginal Human Services Plan: Key Indicators Report 2006/07

Perinatal Data Collection Unit Publications

Freemantle et al.

Freemantle & McAullay 2009, in Indigenous Children’s Health Report: health assessment in action, eds. Smylie, J., Adomako, P.

Freemantle, J, McAullay, D, Officer, K, Anderson, I. 2007, Australia Indigenous Health Within an International Context. Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Darwin; Kulunga Research Network, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia.

Freemantle, J., de Klerk, N., Read, A., Stanley, F. First Research Report of the Advisory Council for the Prevention of Death in Children and Young People. 2004. Department for Community Development, Government of Western Australia.

Freemantle CJ, Read, A.W. Preventing child deaths. BMJ 2008; 336: 1083-1084.

Freemantle CJ, Read, A.W, de Klerk, N.H., McAullay, D., Anderson I.,Stanley, F.J. Patterns, trends and increasing disparities in mortality for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal infants born in Western Australia, 1980-2001: population database study Lancet. 2006:367; 1758-1766.

Freemantle CJ, Read, A.W, de Klerk, N.H., McAullay, D., Anderson I P.,Stanley, F.J. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal disparities among infants born in Western Australia from 1980-2001 inclusive. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health; 2006; 42:445-451

Freemantle CJ, Read, A.W., de Klerk, N.H., McAullay, D., Anderson I P. Constructing a mortality profile of Western Australian born Aboriginal infants, children and young people using total population linked data. Australasian Epidemiologist. April 2006 : 13.1;.9-13.

Freemantle CJ, Read, A.W., de Klerk, N.H., McAullay, D., Anderson IP.,Stanley, F.J .Interpretation of recent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome rates in Western Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2005; 41(12): pp 669-670.

Freemantle, CJ., Read, A.W., de Klerk, N.H., McAullay, D., Charles, AA.,Stanley, F.J. SIDS and Unascertainable Deaths in Western Australia. Archives of Disease in Childhood, letter to the Editor. 25 October 2005.