Figure 14 the percentage of DSP recipients reported against the top three medical conditions for the years from June 2001 to June 2013. Figure 14 Recipients by top 3 primary medical conditions June 2001 to June – – 2013 As at June 2001, nearly two-thirds (65.2 percent) of DSP recipients had or Musculoskeletal and connective tissue, Psychological/psychiatric as primary medical condition. By June 2013 that figure was Intellectual/learning 69.7 percent. Of the three most common primary medical conditions, and have, in most years, been Psychological/psychiatric Intellectual/learning increasing in incidence while, peaked at 34.0 Musculo-skeletal and connective tissue percent of the recipient population in 2004 and has since had a decreasing representation. The number and proportion of DSP recipients with as their primary medical condition exceeded the number Psychological/psychiatric with condition for the first time in 2011. Musculo-skeletal and connective tissue
Figure 14 the percentage of DSP recipients reported against the top three medical conditions for the years from June 2001 to June 2013. Figure 14 – Recipients by top 3 primary medical conditions – June 2001 to June 2013 As at June 2001, nearly two-thirds (65.2 percent) of DSP recipients had Musculoskeletal and connective tissue, Psychological/psychiatric or Intellectual/learning as primary medical condition. By June 2013 that figure was 69.7 percent. Of the three most common primary medical conditions, Psychological/psychiatric and Intellectual/learning have, in most years, been increasing in incidence while, Musculo-skeletal and connective tissue peaked at 34.0 percent of the recipient population in 2004 and has since had a decreasing representation. The number and proportion of DSP recipients with Psychological/psychiatric as their primary medical condition exceeded the number with Musculo-skeletal and connective tissue condition for the first time in 2011.
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