deaths and deaths from SIDS and undetermined causes is provided by the Ombudsman, Western Australia. Therefore these two data sets will not sum accurately and should not be compared. The data provided by the Ombudsman Western Australia is based on the child death notification received by the Ombudsman which includes general information on the circumstances of death. This is an initial indication of how the child may have died but is not the cause of death, which can only be determined by the Western Australian Coroner. Australian Capital Territory Children and People Death Review Committee does not specify raw figures where counts are less than 5. These are represented by the figure <5 throughout this chapter. The Australian Capital Territory data does not include deaths of children and young people awaiting the Coroner’s findings. The New Zealand Child and Youth Mortality Committee notes that: Data are from the NZ Mortality Review Database, collects and stores data for the Child and Youth, and Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committees. The data are provisional. Data relates to deaths occurring in the age of 20 weeks gestation (or birth weight 400 grams) up to but not including the 18th birthday, and excludes stillbirths and terminations. were 21 cases for whom no cause of death coding is available, and were therefore excluded from Tables 4, 5 and 6. These were predominantly early neonatal deaths. Only deaths of New Zealand residents are included in analyses (deaths of non-residents within New Zealand are excluded). Infant mortality is usually calculated using live births in New Zealand, so the infant mortality rates in this chapter will differ from official New Zealand statistics. List of abbreviations ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics. ANZCDR&PG Australian and New Zealand Child Death Review and Prevention Group. ERP Estimated resident population. ICD-10 International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, tenth revision. QFCC Queensland Family and Child Commission, enacted by the Family and Child Commission Act 2014 on 1 July 2014. SIDS Sudden infant syndrome. WHO World Health Organization.
deaths and deaths from SIDS and undetermined causes is provided by the Ombudsman, Western Australia. Therefore these two data sets will not sum accurately and should not be compared. The data provided by the Ombudsman Western Australia is based on the child death notification received by the Ombudsman which includes general information on the circumstances of death. This is an initial indication of how the child may have died but is not the cause of death, which can only be determined by the Western Australian Coroner. Australian Capital Territory Children and People Death Review Committee does not specify raw figures where counts are less than 5. These are represented by the figure <5 throughout this chapter. The Australian Capital Territory data does not include deaths of children and young people awaiting the Coroner’s findings. The New Zealand Child and Youth Mortality Committee notes that: Data are from the NZ Mortality Review Database, collects and stores data for the Child and Youth, and Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committees. The data are provisional. Data relates to deaths occurring in the age of 20 weeks gestation (or birth weight 400 grams) up to but not including the 18th birthday, and excludes stillbirths and terminations. were 21 cases for whom no cause of death coding is available, and were therefore excluded from Tables 4, 5 and 6. These were predominantly early neonatal deaths. Only deaths of New Zealand residents are included in analyses (deaths of non-residents within New Zealand are excluded). Infant mortality is usually calculated using live births in New Zealand, so the infant mortality rates in this chapter will differ from official New Zealand statistics. List of abbreviations ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics. ANZCDR&PG Australian and New Zealand Child Death Review and Prevention Group. ERP Estimated resident population. ICD-10 International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, tenth revision. QFCC Queensland Family and Child Commission, enacted by the Family and Child Commission Act 2014 on 1 July 2014. SIDS Sudden infant syndrome. WHO World Health Organization.
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