The other significant health indicator where marginal
improvement has occurred, but inequity still exists, is
the rate of avoidable hospitalisations among Pacific
children before the age of four. Most commonly,
children are hospitalised for serious skin infections,
gastroenteritis and for respiratory conditions. Pacific
children have the highest rates of hospitalisations
when expressed as a percentage of population.112 In
some District Health Boards, Pacific children, while
not being the largest population, have the highest
rates of hospitalisation.
ASH rate of Pacific, Māori and Other children - 2015 to 2019
14.00%
13.02%
12.88%
12.54%
11.64%
12.00%
10.00%
8.00%
6.00%
7.72%
8.54%
7.27%
7.28%
5.44%
5.67%
5.58%
5.57%
2015
2016
2017
2018
12.15%
7.95%
5.29%
4.00%
2.00%
0.00%
Other
Maori
2019
Pacific
FIGURE 14: Ambulatory sensitive hospilisation rate of Pacific, Māori and other children btween 2015 and 2019.
112
Ministry of Health National Service Framework Library: Data for reporting against SLM Ambulatory Sensitive
(avoidable) hospital admissions to December 2019, accessed from https://nsfl.health.govt.nz/accountability/
performance-and-monitoring/data-quarterly-reports-and-reporting/ambulatory-sensitive.
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