- Title
- Gomeroi gaaynggal: empowerment of Aboriginal communities to understand health implications of research in pregnancy
- Creator
- Rae, Kym; Weatherall, Loretta; Boulton, John; Smith, Roger; Lumbers, Eugenie; Clausen, Don; Maxwell, Camilla; Bowman, Maria; Milgate, Paula; Hall, Sharron; Galal, Mohamed; Hollebone, Keith; Apen, Ken
- Relation
- 12th National Rural Health Conference. Proceedings of the12th National Rural Health Conference Adelaide, South Australia, 7-10 April 2013 (Adelaide 07-10 April, 2013) p. 1-6
- Publisher
- National Rural Health Alliance
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- There is an increasing body of evidence indicating how critical good health in pregnancy is for both the short and long term health of an infant. When the Aboriginal community suffers such a high burden of poor health and reduced life expectancy, it is appropriate to look at improving the health of Aboriginal women throughout their pregnancy as a mechanism for ‘Closing the Gap’. Sadly, Aboriginal women are more than twice as likely to deliver their babies prematurely than non- Aboriginal women(14.3% versus 7.9% respectively) and with abnormally low birthweights (13.2% versus 6.1%). In all other measurable outcomes, Aboriginal infants fare poorly in their first twelve months with increased rates of foetal, neonatal and perinatal death.
- Subject
- Gomeroi gaaynggal; Aboriginal women's health; pregnancy health; health education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1295575
- Identifier
- uon:19071
- Identifier
- ISBN:1921219238
- Language
- eng
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