Table4: Summary of evidence for priority areas health determinants Outcomes of the health needs analysis Identified Need Need to increase life expectancy due to lower life expectancy experienced
Key Issue Life expectancy for persons, males and females all lower compared with Australia (males; rank 25/31, variance to Aust -2%)
Description of Evidence AIHW 2016; Table 53 Life expectancy
Increased need for ante-natal support due to higher teenage mother birth rate
Higher proportion teenage mother birth rates (rank 25/31, variance to Aust -89%)
PHIDU 2018; Table 52 teenage mothers
Increased need for ante-natal support due to less fully breastfeed babies at six months
Lower proportion of fully breastfed babies at six months of age (rank 28/31, variance to Aust -15%)
PHIDU 2014; Table 56 Breastfeeding and early nutrition
Need for support related to domestic violence related assault
Higher rate of domestic violence related assault
Boscar 2020; Table 82 Violence related assault Boscar 2020; Table 83 Alcohol related violence related assault Boscar 2020; Table 84 Sexual and indecent assault Boscar 2020; Table 84 Sexual and indecent assault
Need for support for victims of sexual or indecent assault
Higher proportion of alcohol related non-domestic violence related assault Higher rates of sexual assault Higher rates of indecent assault
Summary risk factors MPHN has higher rates of people, both males and females that consume alcohol at harmful levels compared with both NSW and Australia. These rates are across all sectors with the exception of Wagga Wagga. Both short and long term risk associated with alcohol drinking is higher in the Murrumbidgee compared with NSW. Drinking daily is higher in the Murrumbidgee region compared with NSW. There is a lower proportion of drinking within the recommended levels in the Murrumbidgee compared with NSW. MPHN has higher rates of possession and or use of amphetamines, cannabis compared with NSW but lower rates of cocaine and ecstasy use compared with NSW. MPHN has higher rates of people with low or very low or no exercise are higher compared with both NSW and Australia. People with adequate fruit intake are similar in the MPHN to both NSW and Australia. Conversely MPHN has higher proportions of vegetable intake compared with NSW. MPHN has higher rates of people with high blood pressure and higher proportions of people with a long term condition of high blood pressure or hypertension compared with Australia. Proportions of people who are overweight and obese are higher in MPHN compared with Australia. Obesity is higher in three sectors, Riverina, Border and Western. MPHN has the highest rates of overweight males and females for young people compared with NSW and Australia. This rate of overweight young people is reflected in all four sectors. Obesity is the same for MPHN young people, although this is not reported in the Wagga Wagga sector however is evident in the other three sectors. MPHN residents do not have higher rates of people with high or very high psychological distress compared with NSW and Australia. 17 | P a g e
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