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Part 2: Area Health Services

Lee Taylor, Margaret Pym, Barbara Bajuk, Lee Sutton, Susan Travis, Clare Banks

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About the author/s

Lee Taylor

Margaret Pym

Barbara Bajuk

Lee Sutton

Susan Travis

Clare Banks

Corresponding author

Clare Banks

Abstract

Continuing the trend over recent years, the largest numbers of confinements in 1998 were among mothers resident in the South Western Sydney (12,050, 14.2 per cent) and Western Sydney Areas (10,541, 12.4 per cent). These two Health Areas contributed over one quarter of the State’s births. Seventy-nine per cent of confinements were to mothers resident in the metropolitan Areas (including the Central Coast, Hunter and Illawarra Areas), and 20.6 per cent were to mothers resident in rural Areas.