Birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers
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Topic: First Nations people
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) Birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 06 November 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2014). Birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers. AIHW, 2014.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers. Canberra: AIHW; 2014.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2014, Birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers, AIHW, Canberra.
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Birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers provides an overview of the birthweight of babies born to Indigenous mothers, including recent trends and information on factors associated with birthweight variation. According to data from the National Perinatal Data Collection, 3.9% of all births in 2011 were to Indigenous mothers. Excluding multiple births, 11.2% of liveborn singleton babies born to Indigenous mothers were of low birthweight—2.5 times the rate for non-Indigenous mothers (4.6%). Between 2000 and 2011, there was a statistically significant decline in the low birthweight rate among Indigenous mothers, and the gap in birthweight between babies born to Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers declined significantly over this period.
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-606-1
- Cat. no: IHW 138
- Pages: 51
Findings from this report:
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Indigenous mothers were twice as likely to have babies of low birthweight than non-Indigenous mothers
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11,729 Indigenous mothers gave birth to 11,895 babies in 2011, representing 4% of all babies born in that year
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12.5% of babies of Indigenous mothers were pre-term compared with 7.5% of babies born to non-Indigenous mothers
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50% of all Indigenous mothers who gave birth in 2011 reported smoking during pregnancy