Gracey M, Cullinane J
Office of Aboriginal Health, Department of Health and School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
J Paediatr Child Health. 2003 Aug;39(6):427-31. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1754.2003.00182.x.
To retrospectively examine rates of hospitalization of infants and children in Western Australia for gastroenteritis from 1994 through 2000.
Analysis of hospital separations data from the Hospital Morbidity Data System of the Department of Health, Western Australia.
Rates of hospitalization of Aboriginal infants and children for gastroenteritis from 1994 to 2000 in Western Australia were approximately seven times higher than for their non-Aboriginal peers. This was despite some decline in Aboriginal hospitalization rates over the study period. This may have been due to a simultaneous decline in hospital admissions of non-Aboriginal infants and children. Rates of hospitalization of Aboriginal infants and children were much higher in non-metropolitan rather than in metropolitan regions. There was a remarkable fall in the deaths of Aboriginal infants and children from gastroenteritis between 1970 and 2000. There were no deaths recorded in Western Australian hospitals from this disease from 1990 to 2000.
回顾性研究1994年至2000年西澳大利亚州婴幼儿因肠胃炎住院的比率。
分析西澳大利亚州卫生部医院发病率数据系统中的医院出院数据。
1994年至2000年，西澳大利亚州原住民婴幼儿因肠胃炎住院的比率约为非原住民同龄人的七倍。尽管在研究期间原住民住院率有所下降，但这可能是由于非原住民婴幼儿住院人数同时减少所致。在非大都市地区，原住民婴幼儿的住院率远高于大都市地区。1970年至2000年期间，原住民婴幼儿因肠胃炎死亡的人数显著下降。1990年至2000年期间，西澳大利亚州医院没有记录到因这种疾病导致的死亡病例。
