Aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian former prisoners’ patterns of morbidity and risk of hospitalisation

Table 1 Frequency distribution table that presents the most frequent reasons for hospitalisation in three main ICD-10 categories

	Non Aboriginal (n = 1403)		Aboriginal (n = 496)
	N	Ratio of admission per head of population^a	N	Ratio of admission per head of population^a
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use	855	0.61	367	0.74
Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders	285	0.20	123	0.25
Disorders of adult personality and behaviour	268	0.19	107	0.22
Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders	259	0.18	96	0.19
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
Injuries to the head	367	0.27	152	0.31
Poisoning by drugs, medicaments and biological substances	256	0.18	121	0.24
Injuries to the wrist and hand	241	0.17	97	0.20
Injuries to the elbow and forearm	152	0.11	65	0.13
Infectious and Parasitic diseases
Bacterial, viral and other infectious agents	188	0.18	113	0.23
Viral hepatitis	181	0.17	66	0.13
Other bacterial diseases	36	0.03	26	0.05
Intestinal infectious diseases	27	0.03	10	0.02

^a (frequency of the different ICD-10 diagnoses)/number of individuals in database for whom we had admitted patient data (1403 non-Aboriginal and 496 Aboriginal = 1899)

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