Avoidable indigenous deaths fall: report

AVOIDABLE deaths among Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders have dropped since 2001, but mortality rates for chronic diseases are still much higher for indigenous Australians.

Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on Monday showed death rates for avoidable causes and circulatory diseases had declined between 2001 and 2010.

But the figures also showed almost half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers smoke during pregnancy and unemployment rates continue to remain higher for indigenous people than for non-indigenous people.

In Western Australia, there was no improvement in incidence rates of treated end-stage renal disease in recent years - currently 12 times the rate for non-indigenous Australians.

But there was a 35 per cent fall in the overall mortality of indigenous people and a 17 per cent decline in avoidable mortality from 1997 to 2010.

Also in WA, infant mortality rates fell 62 per cent between 1991 and 2010.

In NSW, the number of indigenous people starting end stage renal disease therapy, currently three times the rate for non-indigenous Australians, had jumped 286 per cent since 1991.

Avoidable mortality fell in the state by 20 per cent, while there was an increase in the proportion of pregnant women attending antenatal care.

In Victoria, low birthweight was more than twice as common among babies of indigenous mothers as among babies of non-indigenous mothers.

Queensland saw a 41 decline in the rates of infant mortality and a 32 per cent decrease in avoidable mortality.

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