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5.1 Perceptions of trust and safety continuedThe direction of changeover timeDiscussionWomen’s responses to all three questions have shown some improvementsince 2002.Age, residential location (rural versus metropolitan) and socioeconomicstatus significantly influence people’s reported perceptions of trust andsafety. See also Safety and access to justice (Chapter Six).Trust involves a willingness to take risks in a social context. This willingness is based on a confidence that others willrespond as expected and act in mutually supportive ways or at least that others will not intend harm.The data refers to people aged 16 years and over.Year collected: 2009 (most recent data available).Data source: NSW Population Health Survey (HOIST), Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health.More information is available at www.health.nsw.gov.au/PublicHealth/surveys/hsa/09/toc/t_5_soc_02_social_capital.asp5.2 Experiences of neighbourhood connectionCurrent positionThe direction of changeover timeDiscussionDifferences between women and men concerning feeling connected in theirneighbourhood were evident in response to a question about the likelihoodof running into friends, and feeling sad to leave, although not in reportedrates of visiting neighbours.Gender gaps:• 84 percent of women and 79 percent of men ran into friends andacquaintances when shopping in the local area.• 60 percent of women and 62 percent of men said they had visitedneighbours in the last week.• 75 percent of women and 69 percent of men reported that they wouldfeel sad if they had to leave their neighbourhood.The percentage of women and men who recently visited neighboursdeclined slightly in the last 10 years (the figures in 2002 were 64 percentof women and 69 percent of men).Among women, a significantly higher proportion of women aged 45 yearsand over and a significantly lower proportion of younger women would feelsad if they had to leave their neighbourhood, compared with the overall adultfemale population.Several questions in the NSW Population Health Survey seek information about how connected people feel to theirneighbours and their local neighbourhood.Year collected: 2009 (most recent data available).Data source: NSW Population Health Survey (HOIST), Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health.More information is available at www.health.nsw.gov.au/PublicHealth/surveys/hsa/09/toc/t_5_soc_02_social_capital.asp32 WOMEN IN NSW 2012 | HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Table 2.4Aboriginal women’s health compared in NSWAnte-natal careDefinition: The proportion of pregnant mothers attending their firstantenatal visit before 14 weeks of pregnancy in 2010.Change: Improvement of 27 percentage points since 1996.Relative improvement compared to non-Aboriginal women of11 percentage points.Note: Under-reporting affects data quality but the trend is reliable.Confinementsto Aboriginalmothers %2010: 711996: 44Confinements tonon-Aboriginalmothers %2010: 801996: 64Low birthweight babiesDefinition: Birth weight (BW) less than 2.5 kilograms.Low BW babies Low BW babiesto Aboriginal to non-AboriginalChange: No change since 1991; gap between Aboriginal andmothers % mothers %non- Aboriginal women of 5 percentage points.Note: Under-reporting affects data quality, but the trend is reliable. 2010: 11 2010: 61991: 11 1991: 6SmokingDefinition: Proportion who are current (daily or occasional) smokers.Change: Reduction of 7 percentage points in Aboriginal womensince 2002-05. Relative improvement compared to non-Aboriginalwomen of 3 percentage points.Note: Data for Aboriginal women are pooled to provide adequatesample size.Aboriginal women16+ years %2006-09: 34All women16+ years2009: 142002-05: 41 2005: 18Alcohol attributablehospitalisationsDefinition: Hospitalisations for specific diseases which can beattributed to high alcohol consumption.Change: Aboriginal women’s rate is 2.2 times that of non-Aboriginal women. Since 1998-99, the rate has increased morequickly for non-Aboriginal women.Note: Data for Aboriginal women from years 2006-2009 is pooled;for non-Aboriginal women, from 2008-09. Age standardisationis used to compare the rates of disease for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women. Comparisons are limited by the very smallnumbers of older people in the Aboriginal population.Aboriginal women16+ years per100,0002010-11: 1,1331998-99: 850Non-Aboriginalwomen 16+ yearsper 100,0002010-11: 5001998-99: 327Potentially preventablehospitalisationsDefinition: Hospitalisations which are potentially avoidable throughpreventive care and early disease management.Change: 18 percent increase in potentially preventable hospitalisationfor Aboriginal women (since 1993-94) compared to a 1 percentincrease for non-Aboriginal women, resulting in an increase in the gapbetween the two groups.Note: After July 2010, numbers and rates were affected by asignificant change in coding standards for diabetes, a majorcontributor to total preventable hospitalisations.Aboriginal womenper 100,0002010-11: 6,0561993-94: 5,156Non-Aboriginalwomen per100,0002010-11: 2,2721993-94: 2,249Source: Surveys and patient collections, Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of HealthHow doesNSW compare?The ABS publishes the GenderIndicators Australia series everysix months. It sets out a range ofindicators against which it is possibleto examine how women in NSWare faring compared with all womenin Australia. Detailed informationis contained in the Appendix.Based on these indicators, the healthoutcomes of NSW women are verysimilar to those of other women inAustralia. In most cases, the gap isno more than one percentage point.The largest gap relates to NSWwomen’s reporting of overweightand obesity (self-reported BodyMass Index), which is morethan 2.5 percentage pointslower in NSW than for womenin Australia as a whole.WOMEN IN NSW 2012 | HEALTH AND WELLBEING33
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