Statistics
Why the Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children
Program is is needed?
Children and families need support more than ever. The following highlights
related to Ontario are from Health Canada’s A Statistical
Profile on the Health of First Nations in Canada for the Year 2000
report.
- The proportion of the First Nations population under 30 years
of age was 61.1% in 2000, compared with 38.8% for the Canadian population
in 2001.
- In 2000, the First Nations birth rate was 23.4 births per 1,000,
more than twice the Canadian rate. One in five First Nations births
involved teenaged mothers; by contrast, far fewer births occurred
among Canadian teen women (5.6%).
- In 2000, the infant mortality rate for First Nations was 6.4
deaths per 1,000 live births -- 16% higher than the Canadian rate
of 5.5. The First Nations rate has been falling steadily since 1979,
when it was 27.6 deaths per 1,000 live births.
- First Nations and Canadian populations had similar proportions
of low birth weight births in 2000; however, almost twice as many
First Nations babies were classified as high birth weight than in
Canada as a whole.
- The most common causes of death for First Nations people aged
1 to 44 years was injury and poisoning. Among children under 10 years,
deaths were primarily classified as unintentional (accidental).
- The coverage rates for routine immunizations of 2-year-olds
were lower among First Nations children for all antigens.
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