Part 3: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mothers and Babies
Lee Taylor, Margaret Pym, Barbara Bajuk, Lee Sutton, Susan Travis, Clare Banks and Kim Lim
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin Supplementary Series
12(3) 35 - 44
Published: 2001
Abstract
Using capture - recapture methods, the percentage of the estimated total number of Aboriginal mothers reported to the MDC rose from 58.7 to 65.7 per cent in the period 1994 to 1999 (Table 29). Reporting was better in rural hospitals than urban hospitals: it is estimated that in 1999 44.9 per cent of births to Aboriginal mothers in urban hospitals were correctly reported as Aboriginal compared to 88.5 per cent in rural hospitals.https://doi.org/10.1071/NB01S23
© NSW Department of Health 2001
