Transformation of mortality in a remote Australian Aboriginal community: a retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe trends in ages and causes of death in a remote-living Australian Aboriginal group over a recent 50-year period.

Design

A retrospective observational study, from 1960 to 2010, of deaths and people starting dialysis, using data from local clinic, parish, dialysis and birthweight registers.

Setting

A remote island community in the Top End of Australia's Northern Territory, where a Catholic mission was established in 1911. The estimated Aboriginal population was about 800 in 1960 and 2260 in 2011.

Participants

All Aboriginal residents of this community whose deaths had been recorded.

Outcome measures

Annual frequencies and rates of terminal events (deaths and dialysis starts) by age group and cause of death.

Results

Against a ba

SUBMITTER: Hoy WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629742 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature