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Mortality rates lower with decentralisation.(STATE AND TERRITORY: NT)
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Australian Nursing Journal
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April 1, 2008
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An Aboriginal community with half the mortality rates of the general Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory supports a decentralised lifestyle with appropriate outreach health services as a prevention to developing diabetes and heart disease, research shows.
The research published in the Medical Journal of Australia showed the north-eastern Aboriginal community of Utopia has cardiovascular mortality rates 40-50% lower than the NT average for Indigenous adults between 1995 and 2004.
Earlier findings between 1988 and 1995 showed a significant reduction in the prevalence off high cholesterol; smoking among men; and risk of new diabetes. There was no increased ...
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