A Social Health Atlas of Young South Australians [Second Edition]

This second edition of A Social Health Atlas of Young South Australians brings together a wide range of information about the health status and health service use of the children and young people of South Australia. The Atlas seeks particularly to illustrate linkages between socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, poorest health status and greater use of services.

Atlas extras:     Supplement     Data     Errata

Full document (13.2 MB)

By section

Contents (351 kB)
Executive summary

1 Introduction (109 kB)

2 Methods (173 kB)

3 Demography and socioeconomic status (5.1 MB)

Age distribution

Children living in single parent families

Children living in low income families

Children living in SA Housing Trust dwellings

Children living in dwellings with no motor vehicles

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Early school leavers

Unemployment

Dependent children of selected pensioners and beneficiaries

Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia (SSABSA) Achievement Scores

Total Fertility Rate

4 Health status (1.4 MB)

Infant deaths

Deaths of people aged 15 to 24 years

Perinatal risk factors

Low birthweight babies

Body mass index

Child abuse and neglect

5 Utilisation of health and welfare services (5.0 MB)

Hospital admissions

Terminations of pregnancy

Use of general practitioner services

Use of community based services

Immunisation status of children at 12 months of age

6 Statistical analysis (693 kB)

Correlation analysis

Cluster analysis

7 Summary of findings (218 kB)

Appendix (651 kB)

Supporting information

Bibliography (116 kB)

Index (48 kB)

Important data on smoking during pregnancy became available after the atlas was published. With the assistance of the Pregnancy Outcome Unit of the DHS, this data is now available for public release. The supplement shows variations in smoking among pregnant women aged 15 to 24 years by socioeconomic status and geographic location.

Supplement (326 kB)