Patterns of Mortality in Western Australian Aboriginals, 1983–1989

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Veroni M (Health Services Statistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Department of Western Australia, 189 Royal Street, Perth, 6004, Australia), Gracey M and Rouse I. Patterns of mortality in Western Australian Aboriginals, 1983-1989. International Journal of Epidemiology 1994; 23: 73–1. The ratios of age-standardized mortality rates of Aboriginals to non-Aboriginals in Western Australia during the period 1983–1989 were 2.6 for males and 3.0 for females. Mortality rates experienced by Aboriginals were much higher in all age categories except 75+ years and for most major diseases except neoplasms. The peaks of all-cause age-specific mortality rate ratios (RR) for Aboriginal males and females were 10.2 (at 40–44 years) and 10.0 (at 35–39 years), respectively. These excess mortalities were mainly due to circulatory diseases, injury and poisoning, respiratory diseases and, in females, to digestive diseases and genitourinary diseases. The highest age-standardized, cause-specific RR for Aboriginal males were for mental disorders (10.3), injury and poisoning (8.9) and genitourinary diseases (8.6); for females the highest RR were for genitourinary diseases (16.9), endocrine, nutritional and metabolic (mainly diabetes mellitus) (12.3), and for infectious and parasitic diseases (7.5).

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