A Social Health Atlas of Young South Australians [Second Edition]

Published: January 2003

This second edition of A Social Health Atlas of Young South Australians brings together a wide range of information about the health status and health service use of the children and young people of South Australia. The Atlas seeks particularly to illustrate linkages between socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, poorest health status and greater use of services.

Authored by PHIDU

Atlas extras: Supplement Errata Data (xls)

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Contents

Executive summary

1 Introduction

2 Methods

3 Demography and socioeconomic status

Age distribution
Children living in single parent families
Children living in low income families
Children living in SA Housing Trust dwellings
Children living in dwellings with no motor vehicles
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Early school leavers
Unemployment
Dependent children of selected pensioners and beneficiaries
Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia (SSABSA) Achievement Scores
Total Fertility Rate

4 Health status

Infant deaths
Deaths of people aged 15 to 24 years
Perinatal risk factors
Low birthweight babies
Body mass index
Child abuse and neglect

5 Utilisation of health and welfare services

Hospital admissions
Terminations of pregnancy
Use of general practitioner services
Use of community based services
Immunisation status of children at 12 months of age

6 Statistical analysis

Correlation analysis
Cluster analysis

7 Summary of findings

Appendix

Supporting information

Bibliography

Index

Important data on smoking during pregnancy became available after the atlas was published. With the assistance of the Pregnancy Outcome Unit of the DHS, this data is now available for public release. The supplement shows variations in smoking among pregnant women aged 15 to 24 years by socioeconomic status and geographic location.

Supplement