Health of children in Australian immigration detention centres: An analysis of the quarterly health reports from 2014 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This study examines 3 years of child and adolescent health data from Australian onshore and offshore immigration detention centres from 2014 to 2017, quantifying the health presentation data of children and adolescents in Australian immigration detention and comparing rates between onshore and offshore detention.

Methods

This study utilised the Quarterly Immigration Detention Health Reports over a period of 3 years. To compare onshore and offshore datasets, we calculated the rate of health events per quarter against the estimated quarterly onshore and offshore detention population of children. We ran a series of two-proportion z-tests for each matched quarter to calculate median z and P values for all quarters. These were used as an indicator as to whether the observed d

SUBMITTER: Essex R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9305240 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature