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Marrickville Local Government Area Health ProfileFigure 10: Prevalence of selected chronic conditions vs Inner West Sydney and state comparators, 2007-08Source: Public Health Information Development Unit and Australian Bureau of Statistics 2007-08 National Health SurveyNote: ‘Mood disorders’ include depression, anxiety, dysthymia and bipolar ; ‘Circulatory system conditions’ include ICD-10-AM codes I00 to I99;‘Respiratory system diseases’ include ICD-10-AM codes J00 to J99; Musculoskeletal conditions’ include ICD-10-AM codes M00 to M99.The information in Tables 8 and 9 reflecting the health status of NSW residents and residentscovered by the Inner West Sydney catchment has been extracted from the NSW PopulationHealth Survey 2010 and 2011 Report on Adult Health and NSW Health Chief Health Officer’sReport 2010. Marrickville is one of the eight LGA’s in the catchment.People living in Inner West Sydney generally consider themselves to have good health. Ofparticular note is that self-reported diabetes rates are higher than for NSW.Table 8: Indicators reflecting health status of residents of Inner West Sydney and NSWIndicatorInner West NSWSydneyExcellent, very good, or good self-rated health status by age, 81.3% 80.4%persons aged 16 years and over, 2011Current asthma, persons aged 16 years and over, 2010 8.8% 11.3%Diabetes or high blood glucose, persons aged 16 years and over, 8.5% 7.4%2010Hysterectomy, females aged 20-69, 2010 6.6% 11.3%Overweight and obesity, persons aged 16 years and over, 2011 46.7% 52.2%Visited a dental professional in the last 12 months, people aged 16 59.1% 58.6%and over, 2010Has private health insurance for dental expenses, people aged 16 51.3% 51.2%and over, 2010Source: NSW Population Health Survey 2010 and 2011 (HOIST). Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Ministry of Health.Table 9 highlights various health indicators and compares residents of Marrickville to those ofNSW overall. This data is reported on the NSW Health Statistics website and is drawn fromvarious NSW Ministry of Health and Australian Bureau of Statistics sources. Of note is thatMarrickville residents are significantly more likely to be hospitalised for chronic obstructivepulmonary disease, fall related injuries (for people aged 65+) and for alcohol attributable causesthan the rest of the State. However, Marrickville residents are significantly less likely to behospitalised in general (including for preventable reasons, for diabetes, coronary heart disease,smoking and high body mass (BMI) attributable reasons) than in general for NSW. They are alsosignificantly less likely than the overall NSW population to die from high BMI attributablecauses.Inner West Sydney Medicare Local and Sydney Local Health District Page 15Marrickville Local Government AreaPopulation Health LGA/SLA Profile v1.1 March 2013