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Marrickville Local Government Area Health ProfileFigure 9: Child mortality per 100,000 births across the catchment, 2005 to2007Source: Public Health Information Development Unit and Australian Bureau of Statistics (2012)Table 7 provides detail reflecting health behaviours of residents covered by the catchment andNSW and has been extracted from the NSW Population Health Survey 2011 Report on AdultHealth.Table 7: Health behaviours of the residents of Inner West Sydney and NSWIndicatorConsumes more than 2 standard drinks perday when drinking alcohol, persons aged 16years and over, 2011Current smoking, persons aged 16 years andover, 2011Recommended fruit consumption, personsaged 16 years and over, 2011Recommended vegetable consumption,persons aged 16 years and over, 2011Adequate physical activity, persons aged 16years and over, 2011InnerWestSydneyIWS trend NSW NSW trend23.9% Since 2002 steady 29.6% Steadywith slightreduction14.9% Decreasing since 14.7% Decreasing1997since 199751.5% Steady 50.4% Steady7.1% Steady 8.4% Steady56.1% Overall slight 54.6% Overall slightincrease since increase since1998. Recent 1998. Recentdecline.decline.Vaccinated against influenza in the last 12 67.3% Increase since 72.4% Increase sincemonths, persons aged 65 years and over, 201119971997Vaccinated against pneumococcal disease, 54.0% Increase since 59.5% Increase sincepersons aged 65 years and over, 201120022002Source: NSW Adult Population Health Survey (SaPHaRI); Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health available at HealthStatistics.Vaccination rates for adults within Inner West Sydney are lower than that for NSW, with otherindicators reflecting a similar health behaviour pattern to the rest of the state.Inner West Sydney Medicare Local and Sydney Local Health District Page 13Marrickville Local Government AreaPopulation Health LGA/SLA Profile v1.1 March 2013